The United Nations (UN) has called on the Israeli regime to immediately stop the destruction of Palestinian houses in the occupied West Bank.
"In the past three days, 77 Palestinians, over half of them children, have been made homeless," James W. Rawley, the United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for the occupied Palestinian territory, said on Friday.
The UN official also expressed concern over the spate of demolitions of Palestinian homes by Israeli authorities in the occupied territory, including East Jerusalem al-Quds.
"Some of the demolished structures were provided by the international community to support vulnerable families. Demolitions that result in forced evictions and displacement run counter to Israel's obligations under international law and create unnecessary suffering and tension," Rawley stressed.
"They must stop immediately," he emphazied.
According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Israeli authorities have razed to the ground as many as 42 Palestinian-owned structures in Ramallah, Jerusalem al-Quds, Jericho, and al-Khalil (Hebron) since January 20.
This is while according to international law, the destruction of private or public property in occupied territories is prohibited.
The Israeli regime destroyed at least 359 Palestinian structures in the West Bank throughout 2014, according to the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, which is a non-governmental group.
The United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator James W. Rawley confirmed on Friday that, in the past three days alone, a total of 77 Palestinians, over half of them children, have become homeless.
He expressed concern over Israel's recent spate of demolitions of Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem.
Home demolitions must stop immediately, Rawley demanded, in a press release that WAFA received.
Since 20 January, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has recorded the Israeli demolition of 42 Palestinian-owned structures in the Ramallah, Jerusalem, Jericho and Hebron governorates.
In addition to those displaced, 59 Palestinians were affected, mainly due to the demolition of structures essential for their livelihood, mostly animal shelters.
Area C of the West Bank is under complete Israeli control.
Humanitarian and Legal bodies and institutions such as the UN, OCHA and B'Tselem confirm that the planning policies applied by Israel in Area C and East Jerusalem discriminate against Palestinians, making it extremely difficult for them to obtain building permits.
Having no other choice, many Palestinians are forced to build without permits to be able to provide a shelter for themselves and their families, risking having their buildings demolished, in the process.
Rawley demanded that Palestinians must have the opportunity to participate in a fair and equitable planning system that ensures their needs are met.
The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) razed Friday a symbolic village, named after the Minister Ziad Abu Ein, which was set up by anti-settlement activists near the "Gush Etzion" settlements bloc near Bethlehem.
IOF soldiers accompanied by a number of settlers surrounded the Palestinian peace activists after they managed to plant dozens of olive trees in the area in honor of the martyr Abu Ein who was killed at the hands of Israeli forces.
The IOF soldiers declared the area a closed military zone and tried to attack the activists.
The coordinator of the popular committee against wall and settlement in Bethlehem Hassan Brijeah and coordinator of the popular committee in Beit Ummar, al-Khalil, Yousef Abu Maria were both arrested during the attack.
Late December, Israeli forces forcefully removed Abu Ein village 1 that was also established in honor of the minister Ziad Abu Ein who was hit and killed by Israeli soldiers during an anti-settlement event.
Abu Ein village 2 was re-established on Friday to mark the 40th day after the minister's murder.
Israeli forces detained a Palestinian child near the village of Maghayir al-Abeed and demolished four structures in the Palestinian village of Ar-Rifa'iyya in the South Hebron Hills area on Wednesday.
An Operation Dove press release said that bulldozers tore down two houses and two animal shelters belonging to the Rabai family of Ar-Rifa'iyya. The demolitions affected a total of 25 people, including 10 children.
The families required municipality aid to keep them in a safe place, after being left homeless. The municipality offered two tents for the affected families to stay, at least, during the night.
Just 20 days ago, in the village of Ad-Deirat, near Ar-Rifa'iyya, two settlers broke a window and threw a molotov cocktail inside a Palestinian-owned house, trying to burn it, said Operation Dove.
Ar-Rifa'iyya and Ad-Deirat villages are located in Area C, under Israeli military and administrative control, WAFA correspondence further reports.
While Ar-Rifa'iyya demolitions were being carried out, Israeli army and police jeeps reached the area of Old Havat Ma'on Hill near the Palestinian village of Maghayir al-Abeed, where some young Palestinian shepherds were grazing their flocks.
An Israeli soldier ran after a Palestinian child, aged 14. The soldier chased away the boy's flock, put the child inside the military jeep with one goat and detained him.
After an hour, the army released the boy in an extremely dangerous place, between the illegal Israeli outpost of Havat Ma'on and the illegal settlement of Ma'on. In this place several times Palestinians, including children, were attacked by extremist Israeli settlers.
The Palestinian Prisoners Center for Studies stated that, during 2014, Israeli soldiers arrested 1,200 Palestinian children, showing a 60% increase comparing to 2013, when the soldiers arrested 750 children.
In related West Bank news, WAFA further reports that 14-year-old Malak al-Khatib, from the village of Beitin, was taken from Ofer military court to begin serving her two months sentence in prison, for alleged rock throwing and possession of a knife.
After being detained for 23 days, Malak was sentenced to two months in prison and a fine of 6000 shekels ($1523), even though she had hopes of being released to reunite with her family who has been living in distress ever since Malak was detained on December 31, 2014.
"She was leaving school after attending her last exam for the first semester when all of a sudden soldiers jumped at her, handcuffed her hands and took her with them," he said.
A military decision was supposed to be made on January 4th, however the court postponed her hearing to January 11.
Malak's detention was extended several times, and she spent around 23 days awaiting her ruling. At the time, the lawyer defending her was trying to reduce the fine.
She is now serving her sentence in Hasharon detention center with three other female prisoners who are, according to her father, taking care of Malak and supporting her emotionally.
Malak is considered the youngest prisoner currently serving a sentence in Israeli jails. She is one of 7000 Palestinian children who were arrested since the start of the second Intifada in September 2000, many of whom are still serving sentences.
Lawyer Ayed Abu Qutesh told WAFA that, even though the International law allows the detention of minors, it should be always the last decision that any court or state takes. All concerned parties should try to find other alternatives to the detention and actual imprisonment of children, such as fines and suspended imprisonment.
Malak's family wasn't able to visit her at the detention center, but only saw her at the court on January 11 for the first time after her arrest. Her father said then that she looked distressed and scared. "After all she is only 14," he explained desperately.
WAFA tried to reach Malak's father once again to learn more about the condition of Malak now that she is serving the sentence, but he remains out of reach.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Education condemned in a press release the ruling, describing it as a "heinous crime".
While Palestinian children endure such conduct, no Israeli children come into contact with the military court system, proving the amount of discrimination in the Israeli system.
A UNICEF report concluded that ill treatment of Palestinian children in the Israeli military detention system appears to be 'widespread, systematic and institutionalized'.
"On average 700 Palestinian children a year, appear before Israel's military court," the United Nations has said.
About 726,000 Palestinian men, women and children have been through the court since the occupation of the Palestinian Territories, in 1967.
According to the report, children detainees are treated harshly in most cases. It mentioned measures such as binding hands and eyes, signing documents in Hebrew, physical and verbal abuse, night arrests, threats, strip searches and solitary confinement to name a few.
Local and international media outlets reported on Israel's cabinet's decision to back a law change allowing harsher sentences of up to 20 years for stone throwers after the recent tensions in Jerusalem's Old City.
Meanwhile, on Thusday, an Israeli court released two security guards stationed at the illegal settlement of Itamar, southeast of Nablus, a day after their arrest under the pretext of firing at two Palestinians earlier January.
According to Israeli army radio, the court decided to release two security guards, arguing that they 'aimed at the open air and didn't intend to shoot the two Palestinians'.
The security guards, accompanied by the army earlier in January, attempted to arrest four Palestinians and, during the arrest, the guards opened fire on two, injuring them.
The two sustained moderate injuries and the two then-suspects were referred to the Magistrate's Court in Petah Tikva, East of Yaffa to extend their detention, pending an ongoing investigation.
Also on Thursday, Israeli forces demolished Palestinian residential structures and sheds in Beit Iksa village, to the northwest of Jerusalem.
Head of Beit Iksa Village Council Sa'ada Khatib said that Israeli troops, accompanied by military bulldozers proceeded to demolish residential structures and sheds belonging to the Ad-Dahawiq Bedouin tribe.
Khatib added that forces routinely target the village, placing it under siege and cordoning it off. He urged competent authorities to intervene in order to support the villagers, given the lack of public services and intermittent transportation.
According to the Beit Iksa Village Profile, prepared by the Applied Research Institute of Jerusalem (ARIJ), the village consists of an area amounting to approximately 7,989 dunams. Approximately 591 dunums, accounting for only 7.4%, are assigned as Area B, whereas about 2,849, accounting for 92.6% are assigned as Area C.
Israel retains full control over Area C, where the Palestinian villagers are prohibited from building and land management unless they obtain permits from the so-called Israeli Civil Administration.
Most of the land making up Area C is agricultural and open spaces, to which access is very difficult for local villagers.
Israeli occupation authorities have seized about 2,000 dunums for the construction and expansion of illegal Israeli settlements and the construction of the apartheid wall.
According to data issued by ARIJ in 2012, a total of 1,545 have been seized for the establishment of the illegal 'Har Samuel 2' and 'Ramot 3' (Also known as 'Ramot Alon') settlements.
These illegal settlements form a part of the 'Giv'at Ze'ev' settlement bloc which Israeli occupation authorities have constructed in order to retain control on the northwest of Jerusalem. This step is inextricably related to Israel's plan to annex all settlements in the West Bank.
Other large tracts of land have been seized from the village to construct bypass roads 436 and 4915 to connect Israeli settlements established on the village's lands with other Israeli settlements. In addition, Israeli forces have seized lands extending 75m along each side of the road as a buffer zone.
Israel has constructed part of the wall on lands belonging to the villagers. The wall route extends 9 km over the village land and isolates 7,840 dunums, accounting for 98.1% of the total area, from the southeastern and southwestern sides of the village.
The isolated lands include open space and agricultural lands which constitute a major source of capital for the village's residents.
The village remains isolated from neighboring Palestinian villages to the northwest of Jerusalem City. The residents are not allowed to travel to Jerusalem City, and the only exit is through an Israeli checkpoint established on the north-western entrance.
The army said the Palestinians cannot live in this area, and cannot even use for grazing purposes or agriculture.
Member of the Union of Agricultural Work Committee, Fayez Abu 'Alia, said Israel's violation is part of ongoing policies that aim at making it difficult for the villagers and farmers to earn their daily living, in an attempt to push them to leave.
Several members of the Agricultural Work Committee visited the area, while their lawyer Ashraf an-Nashasheeby met with farmers and shepherds, and stressed on the importance of immediately informing the committee of all violations as they happen so that it can file all needed legal work in a fast and a professional manner.
The Committee has been working in Area C of the occupied West Bank, under full Israeli military and civil control, planted trees along with the villagers, in addition to providing them with seeds to plant, and paving a road that enables them to reach their lands.
The Israeli-run municipal crews Wednesday knocked down a Palestinian civilian home and a two-story residential apartment sheltering four families in Occupied Jerusalem on account of unlicensed construction.
Members of the Israeli municipal staff, escorted by armed bulldozers and officers, turned the 60-square-meter-large family home of the Palestinian civilian Alyan Rabay'a into mounds of rubble shortly after they stormed al-Farouk neighborhood, in Jerusalem's Jabal al-Mukabir, the house owner said.
The demolition procedure was carried out under allegations of unauthorized construction, Alyan further reported, adding that he has been planning to take shelter in the building with his wife-to-be in the near future.
"I've been grappling with over 100-shekel-household debts. Now the Israeli occupation razed my prospective family home to the ground despite my incessant appeals for a building permit," he said.
Dozens of Palestinian natives of Jabal al-Mukabir have rallied in front of the Israeli Supreme Court in protest at arbitrary Israeli demolition policies at a time when a hearing, set to be held to that end, was to kick out.
The Israeli municipal staff further razed a two-story residence in Jerusalem's village of Shu'fat under the same allegations.
Head of the sit-inners' committee, Youssef Mukheimer, said the leveled apartment is a home to four Palestinian families and covers an overall area of some 500 square meters.
The apartment building has been there for two years, he further stated, adding that its proprietors were forced to shell out an estimated 200,000 U.S. dollars to rescind the demolition issue, but to no avail.
Israeli forces, on Tuesday, handed out notices regarding the approved demolition of 30 Palestinian-owned structures in al-Dir, a locale to the east of Ein al-Bayda, in the Jordan Valley.
An official within the popular resistance community, Khaled Mansour, said that an Israeli special unit, backed by a large military force, raided the locale and handed residents demolition notices for 30 structures, including residential sheds, animal barns, and fodder storage units.
The notices gave the residents until February 16 to appeal the decision, according to WAFA correspondence.
Residents of the locale depend on farming and grazing livestock for a living; some of the homes there were built before the Israeli occupation in 1967. However, attempts by the Israeli occupation to take over the area has not ceased since then.
The Palestinian population, there, is subject to extremely hard living conditions; their homes are constantly demolished, in addition to the imposition of restrictions on movement and denial of access to fields in order to graze their livestock.
Mansour called upon all relevant sides to support these residents and stand by their side, in the face of the Israeli systematic ethnic cleansing and displacement attempts.
Earlier on Tuesday, Israeli army forces delivered four evacuation notices in Khirbet al-Dair, north of the Jordan Valley in order to demolish a number of homes which were allegedly built without obtaining the necessary legal permits.
Meanwhile, Israeli forces have demolished a well owned by Palestinians and used to collect rain water in the town of Halhoul, to the north of Hebron.
The Jordan Valley is part of Area C of the West Bank, under complete Israeli control, where Israel rarely issues construction permits for Palestinians, prompting them to embark upon construction without a permit.
Several Israeli military and police vehicles, accompanied by a number of bulldozers, invaded Jabal al-Mokabber town, south of occupied East Jerusalem, and demolished a Palestinian home after surrounding it.
The Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Silwan (Silwanic) has reported that the soldiers surrounded the home of resident 'Oleyyan Rabay'a, in the as-Sal'a neighborhood, before storming it.
The soldiers then demolished the home, under the pretext of "being built without a construction permit," despite the family's constant efforts to obtain all legal documents, and the heavy fines imposed on them.
Silwanic said the soldiers have repeatedly invaded the home, and ransacked its furniture, over the last few months.
The home is comprised of three bedrooms, several bathrooms and a kitchen; the family was in the process of fully furnishing their property, but were constantly interrupted by ongoing invasions by the army and the City Council.
The family received the official demolition order only two days ago, on January 19, and were still initiating legal measures to challenge it. They said Rabay'a was planning to live in his home after his upcoming wedding.
Israel also wants to demolish two more homes, belonging to the family of Jalal Raba'ya, while the City Council will be holding a session on Friday to make a final decision.
The Jabal al-Mokabber Land Defense Committee, local figures and several popular groups, called for a protest in front of the Israeli Supreme Court, denouncing Israel's illegal policies of home demolitions in an attempt to push the Palestinians to leave.
Head of the Committee, Suleiman Abu Shqeirat, said Israel issued 150 demolition orders against the Palestinians in Jabal al-Mokabber alone, adding that the City Council's over exaggerated measures, and high fees, are making it impossible for the Palestinians to obtain construction permits.
In addition, soldiers invaded Silwan town, south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem, and kidnapped three Palestinians identified as Ziad al-Qaaq, Mousa Odeh and Naji Odeh.
On Tuesday, soldiers demolished a Palestinian home in the town of al-'Eesawiyya, in occupied East Jerusalem, and also demolished several homes and structures in the southern West Bank district of Hebron.


In Minnesota, Democrat Mark Dayton has apparently bucked the trend and eked out a victory in the governor's race by less than one-half of one percent. If the result stands, as I would guess it will, this will be the first time Minnesota Democrats have won the governor's office since 1986, a generation ago. That hurts.
But the hand of the Wave did not pass over Minnesota. The elections of 2006 and 2008 left Republicans in a deep hole in the state legislature, with Democrats holding nearly veto-proof majorities. Almost unbelievably, however, Republicans have taken both the Minnesota House and the Minnesota Senate. Republicans have not held a majority in the Minnesota Senate since state law was modified to require ballots to show partisan designations. That was two generations ago, in 1972. Governor-elect Dayton just had a monkey wrench thrown into his big plans for income tax increases. Dayton now confronts something like the mirror image of the situation that Governor Pawlenty has dealt with over the past four years.
And perhaps simply unbelievably, to me anyway, Republican challenger Chip Cravaack unseated 18-term incumbent Democratic porkmeister Jim Oberstar in Minnesota's Eighth Congressional District, 48-47 percent. The Wave that carried Republicans to the majority in the House of Representatives and John Boehner to the Speakership of the House has given us Rep.-elect Cravaack. Cravaack proved himself a wonderful candidate for the Eighth Congressional District, but Republicans have not held this seat since 1946, three generations ago. Few observers other than Michael Barone and Ed Morrissey actually thought that Cravaack would win, and I have to think Ed was writing in the subjunctive mood when he predicted Cravaack's victory.
Folks, it was a mighty storm that produced that Wave.


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For some heinous reason, society has a difficult time believing powerful men to be capable of committing rape. Or worse, go through great lengths to conceal it.
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Lately I've been on a Netflix binge. We can blame the current state of the world for my newfound entertainment habits. It seems I've willingly stumbled down a Netflix rabbit hole, devouring a new series or film each day. My latest obsession is "Athlete A," the documentary surrounding the sexual assault allegations against Larry Nassar, the former doctor for USA Gymnastics.
Considering the documentary was released in June, it's safe to say I'm a little late in viewing it. However, I remember following the 2016 trail unfold with absolute horror and disbelief. I was dumfounded that something so sinister had occurred in total ubiquity... and no one did anything to stop it.
Nassar was accused of sexually assaulting several young girls during a prolonged period of time, while employed as a doctor for USA Gymnastics and Michigan State University. It is, without doubt, the largest sexual assault scandal to occur within the realm of U.S. sports. Told through a series of interviews with investigative journalists at the Indianapolis Star - the first to break the story - and multiple survivors from Nassar's abuse, the documentary unfolds rather quickly.
"Athlete A" in question refers to Maggie Nichols, who was the first gymnast to file a complaint against Nassar. Her claims were reluctantly ignored, inevitably costing Nichols a spot on the USA Gymnastics Olympics team, despite coming in 5th at the Olympic Team Trails. The overall documentary is disturbing and raw.
There's no doubt the series was heavy to digest. Especially considering the allegations occurred before the #MeToo movement had fully taken off, when women's assault stories were treated differently than they are today. Watching the survivors courageously retell their account of Nassar's abuse, along with the overall mistreatment of gymnasts from USA Gymnastics': my heart instantaneously broke in two.
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What frustrated me most was USA Gymnastics did absolutely nothing to protect these girls. And when allegations were made, they were ignored. The terrifying thing about Nassar was his ability to appear non-threatening to these girls. He wasn't like Weinstein or Epstein, intact with a personality that overflowed with narcissism.
Nassar was the scariest kind of predator. The kind who hid behind a veil of tenderness and compassion. He carefully burrowed his way into these gymnasts lives, providing them with a sense of solace within an environment lacking empathy. In a realm that prioritizes winning at all costs, Nassar appeared to these girls as a kind figure, whom many referred to as "quirky" and "nice."
In essence, Nassar was a predacious wolf in sheep's clothing.
He could've been your quirky, high school teacher or church minister. But what continues to frustrate me about the documentary is USA Gymnastics' reluctancy to address the allegations surrounding Nassar. In fact, USA Gymnastics knew about Nassar's behavior from earlier allegations, but concealed it. This inevitably led to the indictment and resignation of USA Olympics President, Steve Penny.
It's unfathomable to me how complaints about Nassar were dismissed for so long. But this isn't new within our culture. Time and time again, we witness women come forward with sexual assault allegations, only to be belittled or undermined. We witnessed it with Anita Hill, we witnessed it with Christine Blasey Ford, and we witnessed it throughout the Jeffrey Epstein and Harvey Weinstein trails.
For some heinous reason, society has a difficult time believing powerful men to be capable of committing rape. Or worse, go through great lengths to conceal it. How can we expect women to come forward with their sexual assault stories when they're immediately ignored or persecuted once they do? This is a vicious cycle assault survivors are put through and it must be stopped.
When we intentionally ignore survivors stories, it sabotages any chance of healing. To disregard a sexual assault claim is one of the most damaging things you can to a survivor: both mentally and emotionally. We need a better justice system that not only listens to women's allegations, but believes them regardless of their race or background. But in order to do that, we must dismantle the way view and listen to survivors stories.
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Leaky ductwork forces your HVAC system to work harder to get your indoor air to the desired temperature. But some systems are so leaky that it becomes impossible to get all of the rooms in a building to the right temperature.
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The Banking Royal Commission has exposed a culture of dishonesty that demands reform, writes Professor David Kinley from Sydney Law School. Will changing corporate culture change the morals of the finance industry or threaten its viability?
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Do banking and finance attract cheats or create them? This was the question a team of behavioural economists from Switzerland set out to answer in a ground-breaking experiment in 2014.
They took 128 bankers and separated them into two equal groups of 64. They primed the first group with questions about their personal life (their family, hobbies, favourite foods) and primed the second group with questions about their roles and responsibilities at the bank.
The researchers then asked everyone in both groups to toss a coin ten times and record the results. But they added this important rider – you'll get $20 for every head you record; nothing for tails. So what did they find?
Well, obviously, if there's no cheating, you'd expect something close to equal numbers of heads and tails across both groups. And so it was for the first group of bankers: 51 per cent heads, 49 per cent tails. But for the second group - bankers thinking "banking" thoughts - the results were different: 58.2 per cent of them recorded heads, including 5 (out of 64) who claimed all 10 tosses were heads.
The figures from the second group are statistically significant deviations from pure chance and led the team to conclude that the prevailing culture in banking "favours dishonest behaviour".
If we didn't suspect that was the case before, we know it now. The evisceration of the finance sector by the banking and finance royal commission has been shocking to behold and excruciating for financiers. Last week's damning report from APRA of "widespread complacency" throughout the management of the Commonwealth Bank and "inadequate oversight" on the part of the bank's board, rubbed salt into the wounds.
The problems throughout the sector are "systemic and unconscionable", as former Australian Competition and Consumer Commission head Allan Fels laments.
But while it is corporate culture that has brought about this pitiful state, it is also corporate culture that can get the banks (and the rest of us) out of it. For if the Swiss experiment tells us anything, it is that all of us – not just bankers - are an impressionable lot.
Ply us with pizza and talk about the kids and we'll act benignly. But dip us into some seriously competitive KPIs and attach dollar signs to them and we'll rip off the trusting and bill the dead.
So if we can change the incentives, the reasoning goes, we can change culture; and if we can reconfigure the culture in banking and finance we can have an all-new, socially responsible and still profitable, financial system. At least that's the theory.
Cultural change, however, is notoriously hard to shift and it doesn't happen quickly.
What regulations are currently in place?
In the case of finance, rafts of legal rules and regulatory authorities already exist that should be enough to quell criminality and promote ethical behaviour.
Together, the Corporations Act and the Criminal Code outlaw fraud, theft, misleading and deceptive conduct, bribery and corruption, and both APRA and ASIC have power to enforce those provisions in their respective spheres. Yet, as we have seen in the case of ASIC, its record of financial sector prosecutions, let alone convictions, is threadbare, as it prefers (and even more so the misbehaving financiers) to negotiate "enforceable undertakings".
This is a ploy which has manifestly failed to deter offenders, as the records of recidivism within the finance sector grow ever longer.
And while we are not alone in this alternative universe of being soft on white collar crime - US banks and bankers have been avoiding convictions and jail time for years through the well-worn device of "deferred prosecution agreements" - it doesn't make the situation any more palatable.
All business executives are also subject to a set of directors' duties under the Corporations Act that require all directors to act in good faith in the best interests of the company, to exercise care and diligence, and to avoid conflicts of interest. These responsibilities should form the foundations upon which corporate culture is built.
Yet, in practice, so much depends on how you define these unavoidably open-ended terms. It may be true, as many directors (and their lawyers) are wont to argue, that you cannot legislate for something as organic and intangible as promoting a "good culture". But equally, recognising "bad culture" – like instituting incentive schemes that reward fraud and dishonesty, or lying to a regulator – and rooting it out, would certainly be steps in the right direction.
An established culture of careless disregard for customers, clients and corporate regulators are sure signs of a sector in need of rescue from itself.
Whatever, the most effective and sustainable shift in the finance sector's corporate culture will have to come from within the sector itself. Leadership - of the sincere, mould-breaking sort, rather than the wait 'til it blows over, band aid kind – is desperately needed.
The steady torrent of financial skulduggery we are now witnessing is a "wake-up call", as Treasurer Scott Morrison called the APRA report on the CBA, but once awake, who in the upper echelons of finance is going to take heed and act accordingly?
Initiatives like the newly established Financial Advisor Standards and Ethics Authority, which aims to professionalise the financial advisory sector by introducing minimum educational standards, training programs and code of ethics, are good start, if too late for many, but they are working from the ground up.
Top down, systemic reform in the ways our financial institutions are managed and controlled is evidently long overdue. An established culture of careless disregard for customers, clients and corporate regulators are sure signs of a sector in need of rescue from itself.
Of all the data collected during the Swiss experiment, the most telling of all came from its survey of which sectors in society the general public believed would be most likely to cheat in the coin-tossing exercise. Banking topped the list, way ahead of even prison inmates. Not that that would surprise us anymore.
Professor David Kinley is an expert in Human Rights Law from the University of Sydney Law School. This article was originally published in the Sydney Morning Herald as 'Does banking attract cheats or make them?'
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United Nations Archives and Records Management Section, 9 results 9
Schomburg Centre for Research in Black Culture, 5 results 5
Palm Pictures News York, 2 results 2
Hoover Institution Archive, 2 results 2
UNESCO Archives United Nations Information Centre (UNIC), 1 results 1
Yale University, Divinity School Library, 1 results 1
George Washington University, National Security Archive, 1 results 1
University of California San Francisco, 1 results 1
Central Intelligence Agency, 1 results 1
Duke University, 1 results 1
U Thant, 8 results 8
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (Photographs and Prints Division), 3 results 3
Gibson, Angus, 2 results 2
Menell, Jo, 2 results 2
Brutus, Dennis, 1 results 1
US State Department, 1 results 1
Demme, Jonathan, 1 results 1
Saxon, Edward, 1 results 1
AABN, 1 results 1
Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) [DO NOT USE], 3 results 3
Madikizela-Mandela, Winifred Nomzamo Zanyiwe, 2 results 2
Carlson, Joel, 1 results 1
United States, 24 results 24
New York, 17 results 17
Washington, D.C., 2 results 2
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Arrest and imprisonment, 11 results 11
International relations, 10 results 10
International Anti-Apartheid movement, 10 results 10
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Peter Storey
MR-MM-632
The collection of correspondence, datebooks, articles, lectures sermons and audio visual material and Newpaper clippings documenting Peter Storey's leadership and active involvement in the Methodist church of Southern Africa, the South African Council of churches the Central Methodist church in Johannesburg, the Truth and reconciliation commission etc. Main subjects include Nelson Mandela and Winnie Mandela, urban ministry, crisis intervention and political violence in South Africa.
Storey, Peter
Kutner (Luis) Papers
Writings, correspondence, legal briefs and printed matter relating to international civil rights cases, world federation and attempt to secure international recognition of habeas corpus due process of law by an American lawyer. Includes clippings of Nelson Mandela, individual rights, release of Nelson Mandela terrorism etc.
Kutner, Luis
Militant Photographic Collection
Photographs, drawings, and printed reproductions of illustrations, depicting activities of anti war, civil rights, racial justice, women's rights and other protest movements in the United States and other countries, mainly from the 1960's through the 1990's. Includes Nelson Mandela speaks 1990-1994 and writing of Nelson Mandela
Files of United Nations Secretary-General, U Thant
FR UNIC MR-MM-579
Files of the United Nations (UN) Secretary-General, U Thant, including:
Correspondence from U Thant to Mr. Souleymane Ould Cheikh Sidya (Chairman of the Afro-Asian Group and permanent representative to the UN) about the arrest of Nelson Mandela by the South African government and the response received by U Thant from the South African government that the matter essentially falls within the jurisdiction of the Republic of South Africa and that it is not accountable to the UN, 1962.
Statements by anti-apartheid leaders about the racial policies of the South African government, including a statement by Nelson Mandela (quoted in the South African House of Assembly by Helen Suzman), Yusuf Dadoo and Duma Nokwe, 1963. Notes on the forthcoming discussion on the South Africa question in the Security Council by ES Reddy, including the expectation of death sentences for Nelson Mandela and other Rivonia Trialists, and the role of the UN beyond the Rivonia Trial, 1964.
Notes on the Rivonia Trial, and a Security Council discussion on the South African question, with references to the adoption of the resolution on South African prisoners and the Rivonia Trial, a proposal for a separate emergency draft resolution on the Rivonia Trial, possible repercussions of death sentences in the Rivonia Trial, the advantages of adopting a resolution in advance of the sentences, the possibility of death sentences for Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu and at least three other accused, Nelson Mandela and Sisulu reported to be disinclined to appeal their sentences with the implication that the time available for external pressure would be limited, and the possibility of long prison terms, 1964.
A memorandum from ES Reddy (Principal Secretary, UN Special Committee Against Apartheid) to Vladimir Suslov (Under-Secretary General for Political and Security Council Affairs), enclosing a copy of a statement made by Chief Albert Luthuli on the Rivonia Trial, to be released immediately after the sentencing of the Rivonia Trialists, 1964. A letter addressed to Mr. Matthys I. Botha, South African representative to the UN about the death sentences imposed on Vuyisile Mini, Zinakile Mkaba and Wilson Khayinga, and the threats of the same penalty being imposed on other political Trialists, 1964.
A press statement issued by South African Prime Minister, HF Verwoerd concerning the sentences passed in the Rivonia Trial, 1964.
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) CREST
Congressional record house CREST General CIA records on Nelson Mandela : What if alive in free Some Sections Omitted
South Africa politics of racial reform.
South Africa: Dynamics of black politics
African National Congress of South Africa Organisation, Communist, Ties and short term prospects
Prospects for South Africa; Stability reform and violence
South Africa profile of an angry black ( Sections Omitted)
Prospects for South Africa stability reform and violence
Terrorism review
South Africa: The Boipatong massacre and the reigning of the security forces
South Africa weathering the storm
National daily intelligence
South Africa: Inkatha scandal may accelerate police restructuring
South Africa's brokers ballots and bullets
South Africa chronology
Africa review: special issue: South Africa entering the 1990's
National Security Archive Declassified Document Set
US MR-MM-184
Memoranda, reports, statements, cables and project statements covering the following:
United States Embassy (South Africa) reports that the African National Congress (ANC) was created to carry out sabotage, stating that the arrest of Nelson Mandela occurred after he planned subversive activities (1962). A memorandum issued by the Summit Conference of Independent African States held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (1963), agreeing to provide funding to help South African liberation movements and calling for the release from prison of Nelson Mandela, Robert Sobukwe and all other political prisoners. A memorandum on the Rivonia Trial providing biographical information on the Rivonia Trialists, and in which Nelson Mandela argues that opposition groups resorted to armed struggle only after avenues for peaceful change were blocked (1964). A report in which ANC and Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) leaders, including Nelson Mandela, Michael Harmel and Walter Sisulu are described as Communists, and documents presented during the Rivonia Trial are cited as evidence of the contacts between the ANC, PAC, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Communist Party of the People's Republic of China (1964). A memorandum of conversation in which Cecil Eprile characterises black leaders like Nelson Mandela as careless and prone to bad judgment (1965). A cable relating to Resolution 473 of the United Nations Security Council urging South Africa to release all political prisoners, including Nelson Mandela (1980). Biographic sketch information on Nelson Mandela provided by the US Department of State (1983). A cable on the awarding of the international Simon Bolivar prize to Nelson Mandela by the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) (1983). Correspondence to the South African Ambassador to the United States, calling for the release of Nelson Mandela (1984). A cable about the Johannesburg Star Newspaper reports that the arrest of Nelson Mandela 25 years ago occurred after he was betrayed by a US Central Intelligence Agency agent posing as a diplomat of the United States Consulate General in Durban (1986). A statement in which Chester A. Crocker calls for the release of Nelson Mandela (1986). A report in which the US Department of State Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on South Africa asserts that the first steps taken by South Africa must be the release of Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu, Govan Mbeki and all other political prisoners (1987).
California Lavender Smokefree Project
Collection of materials consists mainly of periodical articles about the social effects of tobacco.
Includes an article entitled, "Nelson Mandela: Marlboro Man."
Association of Western European parliamentarians Against Apartheid (AWEPAA after 1993 AWEPA and African Europen Institute)
Materials documenting the work of the Washington Office on Africa, founded in 1972 to support freedom struggles in Southern Africa. Included in the collection are:
Tributes to Nelson Mandela, some of which commemorate his 65th birthday. US House Resolution 430 entitled the Mandela Freedom Resolution, calling for Mandela's release from prison, and the lifting of state imposed banning orders on Winnie Mandela.
Nelson Mandela's visit to the United States after his release from prison, the establishment of International Reception Committee to promote and co-ordinate activities during his visit to the United States.
Washington Office on Africa
Files of United Nations Secretary-General, Kurt Waldheim
Files of the United Nations (UN) Secretary-General, Kurt Waldheim, including:
Documents issued by the UN unit on Apartheid concerning campaigns for the release of all political prisoners. The text of a statement by the chairperson of the UN Centre Against Apartheid regarding the imprisonment of both Nelson and Winnie Mandela, with extracts of a telegram received from Zenani and Zindzi Mandela on the continued imprisonment of their parents. Correspondence concerning the 1976 Day of Solidarity with South African political prisoners, and a statement by the Secretary-General to the UN Special Committee Against Apartheid. Documents relating to the 1977, 1979 and 1981 commemorations of South African political prisoners, with references made to long-serving prisoners such as Nelson Mandela and Zephania Mothopeng.
A press release in which the chairperson of the South Africa Trust Fund, Anders I. Thunborg, calls for the release of Nelson Mandela. A press release in which the chairperson of the Special Committee Against Apartheid, ES Reddy, expresses his satisfaction with the campaign to free South African political prisoners, in which he quotes from the speech delivered by Zindzi Mandela at Wits University in 1980.
Correspondents include ES Reddy, Leslie O. Harriman and Kurt Waldheim
Waldheim, Kurt
Text of Resolution 2 (XXIII) as adopted by the United Nations (UN) Commission on Human Rights at its 914th meeting on 06 March 1967, including a request that statements delivered by Nelson Mandela at the Rivonia Trial, and by Bram Fischer in his recent trial, be given the widest publicity.
Files of the United Nations (UN) Secretary-General, U Thant, include:
Text of a statement by Achkar Marot, the representative of Guinea, to the UN, refers to Nelson Mandela's imprisonment on Robben Island. Response by the South African government to two articles published in the "UN Monthly Chronicle," which discusses the South African government's position on the Rivonia Trial, including Nelson Mandela's statement from the dock. The conclusion and recommendations of the International Seminar on Apartheid, Racial Discrimination and Colonialism in Southern Africa held in Kitwe, Zambia (1967). The conference recommended special campaigns around the incarceration of outstanding leaders such as Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu, Robert Sobukwe and Bram Fischer.
UN Security Council resolutions on decolonisation and apartheid, many of which call for the release of all South African political prisoners, 1964 - 1965. UN Special Committee Against Apartheid recommendations to the Security Council, including calls for the release of all political prisoners, 1962 - 1969. A report to the Secretary-General by the Expert Group on South Africa, with reference to opposition to South Africa being constituted as a republic, and Nelson Mandela's role in the call for a nationwide stay-at-home strike as a means of protest. Nelson Mandela's renewal of the call for a national convention, following the call made at the All in Africa Conference of African Leaders (Pietermaritzburg, 1961), and a quote by Nelson Mandela against racism from his 1962 trial, 1961 - 1964. The text of a letter from Mary Benson to the UN Special Committee Against Apartheid enclosing a statement made by Abram Fischer, Q.C., with reference to the Defiance Campaign, Congress of the People, Treason Trial, Nelson Mandela in hiding, the formation of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the purchasing of the Lilliesleaf Farm and the Rivonia Trial, 1966.
UN press statement calling for the abandonment of the Rivonia Trial and the release of leaders such as Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu. Letter from Chief Albert Luthuli, President of the African National Congress, sent to the UN Secretary-General, U Thant, about the South African crisis. Albert Luthuli's letter refers the Rivonia Trial and the danger that some or all of the accused could be given the death sentence, and requests that the UN help to save the lives of the Rivonia Trialists. Statement by the UN Special Committee against Apartheid, with reference to the Rivonia Trialists. A record of the 1128th meeting of the UN Security Council, with commentary from Mr. such, the Chinese representative, saying that the Rivonia accused are "on their way to becoming apartheid martyrs." International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) memorandum about relief for the victims of political persecution in South Africa, with reference to the ongoing Rivonia Trial of Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu and others.
The General Assembly Resolution 1761 (XVII) of November 1962, requesting that the South African government abandon all arbitrary trials and release all political prisoners. The General Assembly Resolution A/RES/1881 (XVIII) on the policies of apartheid of the government of South Africa, with reference to reports of the upcoming Rivonia Trial, with the possibility of death sentences for a large number of prisoners, 1963. Notes on the question of apartheid in South Africa, including a review of recent UN proceedings that call for the release of all political prisoners, 1964. Security Council resolutions calling for the release of all political prisoners, 1963 - 1964. Security Council resolution S/5761, calling for the ending of the [Rivonia Trial], and the granting of amnesty to all political prisoners and detainees, particularly the defendants in the Rivonia Trial, 1964.
Background notes on the question of race conflict in South Africa because of Apartheid, including an annexure on the indictment of Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu, Yusuf Dadoo, David Bopape, Yusuf Cachalia, Ahmed Kathrada, Daniel Tloome and Nana Sita for the contravention of apartheid laws during the 1952 Defiance Campaign.
United Nations Special Committee on Policies of Apartheid
Leaflet issued by the African National Congress in South Africa in reply to the South African police statement that the African National Congress has been smashed. Enclosure mentions that the ANC is alive and demands the release of South African leaders- Free Mandela, Free Sisulu, Free Mbeki, Free Sobukwe, Free Kathrada. Also mention the Treason and the Rivonia trail.
AABN
The charter of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), with a resolution on apartheid and racial discrimination, calling for the immediate release of Nelson Mandela, Robert Sobukwe and all other South African political prisoners, 1963. News clippings from the New York Times, with reports on the torture of South African detainees, including reports on the detention of Winnie Mandela and an application to protect her from threats by the South African police, 1970. UN Security Council and OAU resolutions and declarations on decolonisation and apartheid, many of which call for the release of all South African political prisoners, 1964 - 1971. Correspondence between the UN and OAU.
Joel Carlson South African legal files
US NYPL MR-MM-111
Joel Carlson was a South African lawyer who was devoted in anti-Apartheid activities. He was also one of the lawyers that represented Nelson Mandela, and members of the Mandela family against the Apartheid injustice. In this collection there are three original letters written by Nelson Mandela to members some member of his family dating from the 15th July 1969 until 1 July 1970.
South Africa Conspiracy Trial
Copies of records of the Delmas Treason Trial. Members of the 22 accused included Baleka Kgositsle, Popo Molefe, Patrick "Terror" Lekota and Moses Chikane. The records include references to, and police reports on the Release Mandela Campaign of the 1980s, Rivonia, and campaigns for the release of Nelson Mandela and all political prisoners. The records also include state prosecution assessments of witness statements.
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (Photographs and Prints Division)
MALP Nelson and Winnie Mandela Tribute Collection
Flyers and programme brochure for a tribute to Nelson and Winnie Mandela organised by the Friends of Nelson and Winnie Mandela [United Black Appeal], held at the Abyssian Baptist Church, November 25 1985. Also includes a letter of thanks from Winnie Mandela to Arlene W. Oxford, in which the death of Samora Machel is mentioned.
South Africa Black Consciousness Movement Collection
A pamphlet produced for the march to Pollsmoor Prison in 1985, containing a message intended for Nelson Mandela. In the collection, there is a copy of the speech read by Zindzi Mandela on behalf of her father rejecting the regime's offer of conditional release.
Dennis Brutus Papers
Collection of documents including correspondence, newsletters, pamphlets, press clippings, memoranda and media releases. The subjects covered include:
Biographical material on Nelson and Winnie Mandela. Robben Island. Nelson Mandela's health during his imprisonment, and calls for independent medical treatment.
Petitions and campaigns for Nelson Mandela's release from prison. US House Resolution 430 entitled, "The Mandela Freedom Resolution," submitted by Geo W. Crockett Jr., Hamilton Fish Jr., Claude Pepper and Jim Leach, calling for Nelson Mandela's release from prison.
Prison conditions.
The work of the International Anti-apartheid Movement, particularly the Free South Africa Movement (USA). International tributes, such as the Nelson Mandela bust on Trafalgar Square (London) and the statue at Merrion Square (Dublin). Honorary degrees conferred on Mandela. Seventieth birthday tributes. Nelson Mandela's release from prison in February 1990, and his visit to the US later that year. The International Reception Committee, established to welcome Nelson Mandela after his release from prison. Marches and rallies held in the US celebrating his release from prison. Nelson Mandela's address to the US Congress, and remarks made to newspaper editors and writers in the US on the new South Africa. Political negotiations, the future of sanctions, the reasons for his release from prison and the armed struggle.
Speeches, statements and articles by Mandela.
The list of correspondents includes Dennis Brutus, John Fiordelisi, Randall Robinson, Archbishop Trevor Huddleston and Geo W. Crockett Jr.
News clippings are from the Boston Sunday Globe, Chicago Sunday Times, Chicago Tribune, Ebony Magazine, New York Post, New York Times, State News and USA Today.
Brutus, Dennis
Palm World: Voices of Mandela
Offering an intimate look at one of the world's most revered human rights figures from his childhood to his election as South Africa's first black president, the feature-length film produced by Jonathan Demme was nominated for the 1997 Academy Award for Best Documentary. A 26-track CD soundtrack includes South African legends Hugh Masekela, Johnny Clegg & Saluki, Vusi Mahlasela, The Manhattan Brothers, Brenda Fassie and many more. The 48-page book and National Geographic Map chronicle the political and cultural history of South Africa.
Palm World Voices: Mandela includes:
48-page Book
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20" X 30" Poster Map exclusively created by the National Geographic Society
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DVD: Mandela: Son of Africa, Father of a Nation
A Captivating view of the indomitable spirit if one of the world's most fascinating figures, this full-length documentary follows Nelson Mandela from his early days and tribal education to his election as South Africa's first black president. Providing insights into his early life, the film takes us through Mandela's childhood, adolescence, career in law and first marriage. Mandela is an absorbing look at the courageous life, tribulations and fortitude of Mandela the leader, while never forgetting the engaging and charismatic spirit of Mandela the man. Film features exclusive interviews and narration from Mandela himself.
Directed by Jo Menell and Angus Gibson and produced by Jonathan Demme, Edward Saxon and Jo Menell.
Total Run Time: 118 minutes
Menell, Jo
Celebrating the life of Nelson Mandela
Mandela: Son of Africa, Father of a Nation
A Captivating view of the indomitable spirit of one of the world's most fascinating figures.
Total Running time: 118 minutes
Offering an intimate look at one of the world's most revered human rights figures from his childhood to his election as South Africa's first black president, the feature-length film produced by Jonathan Demme was nominated for the 1997 Academy Award® for Best Documentary.
A 26-track CD soundtrack includes South African legends Hugh Masekela, Johnny Clegg & Saluki, Vusi Mahlasela, The Manhattan Brothers, Brenda Fassie and many more. The 48-page book and National Geographic Map chronicle the political and cultural history of South Africa
Mandela: Son of Africa, Father of a Nation Original Soundtrack
Evoking the rich and vibrant musical legacy of South Africa, with traditional Xhosa and Zulu folk songs, '50s township swing and jump blues, harmony trios and powerful protest songs of freedom.
1 Robben Island Ambiance
2 Father of Our Nation - Jennifer Jones and Hugh Masekela
3 Childhood - Original Score
4 Sip N' Fly - The African Jazz Pioneers
5 In The Queue - Original Cast Of The All African Jazz Opera "King Kong"
6 Yiyole The - Havana Swingsters
7 Pula Kgosi Seretse - The Skylarks
8 Ndenzeni Na? (What Have I Done?) - The Father Huddleston Band
9 Vuka Vuka (Get Up, Get Up) - The Manhattan Brothers
10 De Makeba - The Jazz Dazzlers
11 Lalelani - The Skylarks
12 Mandela-Madiba Original Score
13 Toyi Toyi Mix - The African National Congress Choir
14 Heavyweight - The Kalahari Surfers With Lesego Rampolokeng
15 Wars Of Old - Original Score
16 Asimbonanga (Mandela) (We Have Not Seen Him) -Johnny Clegg And Saluki
17 Family Theme - Original Score
18 Nelson Mandela - The Specials
19 Rest In Peace - Original Score
20 When You Come Back - Vusi Mahlasela
21 Transkei - Original Score
22 Guns And Pangas - The Kalahari Surfers With Shaun Naidoo
23 Sad Song - Original Score
24 Phansi Ngodlame - Babsy Mlangeni
25 Mmalo-We - Bayete And Jab Khanyile
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Anne (Foster) Hayes
March 3, 1938 ~ November 30, 2021 (age 83)
Anne M. Hayes (Foster), 83, of Hingham MA passed away peacefully on November 30th. Anne was much loved by her family and friends.
She was born to Grace and George Foster on March 8, 1938 and grew up in West Roxbury with her two younger sisters, Dorothy and Mary. Shortly after graduating Roslindale High School in 1955, Anne went to work for Ma Bell as a telephone operator. During this time, at a neighbor's cookout, she was introduced to a young man, Peter Hayes, who quickly captured her heart.
Anne and Pete were soon inseparable and married within the year. They were married on June 16, 1962 in West Roxbury. Their first home was in Roslindale where they began their life and started a family. Before long, Anne and Pete moved to Milton and raised five children: Kelly, Rosemary, Peter, Elizabeth, and Joseph. Packing the car for summer weekends in Vermont and large family gatherings for Thanksgiving & Christmas were favorite times. A low level of chaos was the norm, and Anne kept everyone moving in the right direction. Anne went back to work at AT&T supporting the Boston office. Her efforts to keep the office running smoothly were recognized with an "Anne Hayes" day. A few t-shirts are still around from that fun day.
After all 5 kids had moved in many directions, Anne and Pete moved to Squantum where their home continued to be filled with their family and grandchildren. Later they moved to Hingham and Linden Ponds where they continued to enjoy an active social life and making new and treasured friends.
Anne was happiest when the house full of family and friends. She hosted countless dinners, holiday gatherings, and summer cookouts. Her family and friends will always remember the welcoming feel of her home. There was always room for one or two more at the table. Anne avidly crocheted and knitted, making many beautiful blankets and sweaters. She had a green thumb, growing and cultivating plants and flowers, both indoors and outside. She always had a special love for her grandchildren: Katie, Patrick, Christine, Scott, Maggie, Emily, Julie, Becky, Amanda, Erin, Olivia, and David. Those who were lucky enough to know her will always feel Anne's love and passion for family and friends.
Visiting hours will be held on Monday, December 6th, 4:00-8:00 pm at Alfred D. Thomas Funeral Home, 326 Granite Ave. A funeral mass will be held at St, Agatha's Church, Milton on Tuesday, December 7th, at 10:30. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Linden Ponds Resident Care Fund. For online contributions, the following can be used:Elm.convio.net/LindenPondsRCF
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It's that time of year again… summer is almost over and the kids are heading back to school. That of course means back to school shopping. Or does it? I'm here with a couple of frugal strategies that will save you big.
Looking at the news, magazines and what everyone is doing, you get the impression that kids need new backpacks, lunch boxes and an entire new wardrobe to start school. And don't even get me started on the 2 page list supplies the school district sends out (also conveniently provided by your major discount and office supply stores).
If you're ready to get your child back to school on a dime, follow the strategies below in the order I share them. When in doubt, don't buy right away.
Which brings us to my first point. Start with what you already have. Get out your child's bag from last year along with any binders, lunch box, pencils, pens, barely used notebooks etc. Take stock of what you already have and cross that off your list of things to buy.
Look outside your kid's room too. For example, this past year my daughter started taking a messenger bag to school that I had sitting in the closet leftover from my college days. It's still in good shape and she'll continue to use it this year. The same goes for her lunch box.
Look through your own stash of office supplies, pens and pencils and see what can be repurposed for school this year.
Last but not least, there's no need to buy an entire new wardrobe. This is however a good time to go through the closet and see what fits, what doesn't and what's appropriate for school. For the next few weeks it should still be warm enough for summer clothes. We usually start buying what's needed in the fall, or wait and get new jeans, long sleeve shirts and the likes as part of Christmas.
If you have older kids, don't forget to look in their closets to see what can be passed down to younger siblings. Putting off cloth shopping even or a month or two can help not blow your budget in the weeks before school starts. It also gives you a little extra time to shop around for great deals, or pick up something at a thrift shop or yard sale that fits your kids.
Do They Really Need That?
Next look through the list of school supplies and find out if they really need everything on that list. I used to buy everything suggested during summer break, only to find out once school started that the teacher didn't use all 5 binders and prefered a couple of different style notebooks instead. We know pick up what we know they'll need early, and hold off on everything else until we talk to teachers.
Also, don't feel obligated to buy classroom supplies right away. Teachers have more than enough hand sanitizer, copy paper and the likes at the beginning of the year. Instead, make a note to check after Christmas and see if there's anything else needed. Again, this gives you a little extra time to save up and budget and keeps you from buying things the kids don't even need.
This is also a great time to have a conversation with your kids about what's truly important. Hint – those designer sneakers that "EVERYBODY" has aren't it.
Now that you have a pretty good grasp on what you actually need to get it's time to start shopping around. Save the circulars and look for loss leaders. These are ridiculously cheap items stores offer to get you in the door. The hope is that you'll also buy whatever else is on your list there instead of shopping around and driving to multiple stores.
Office supply stores will often have 2 or 3 basic items super cheap. I was able to find pencils and notebook paper for a penny. Drug stores on the other hand tend to have great deals on things like backpacks and notebooks or binders. Find those amazing deals, stick to just those few items and plan to get to the store early before they sell out.
Don't forget to check online for things too. We've gotten some great deals on lunch box containers, water bottles, bags and the likes on places like Amazon.


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Cutting the ribbon at the Oct. 1 inauguration of the Counseling Center for Parents & Children "St. Alexandra the Empress" in Bucharest, Romania, 24-year-old Alexandra Nadane marked eight years along her journey into pro-life leadership. That journey began with an email.
As a 16-year-old volunteer at a social services agency, Nadane showed her director an email from a pregnant woman pleading for help with circumstances so bleak that others were pressuring her to have an abortion.
"It's not our problem; ignore this email," the director said.
Since her agency refused to help, Nadane went to meet with the young woman herself. She reminded the woman that her relationships could be restored, but an aborted child could not. Encouraged by Nadane's personal concern, the young woman resolved to keep her child.
But would she hold firm once she got home? Nadane went with the woman to talk with her parents. "I told them, 'Make me a list of all your daughter's problems and I will resolve them,'" she said. Though doubtful that a 16-year-old could deliver on such a rash promise, the woman's parents made the list.
"I went home with that list and prayed, 'God, what have I done?'" Nadane said.
Within two days, people had stepped forward to meet the woman's needs.
Nadane went on to start Students for Life in Bucharest, an organization of which she is now president. Next, she set about mobilizing March for Life organizers across the country. That project, which was present in about 25 cities four years ago, has now grown to 287 cities in Romania and the Republic of Moldova.
This year, Romania alone rallied over 110,000 participants for its seventh annual March for Life, which was held on the Feast of the Annunciation. As Nadane points out, the annual March's proximity to the celebration of the most important pregnancy ever has caused even the liberal-leaning media to take notice of the movement.
Nadane's goal for the March has been to open public dialogue on difficult issues surrounding pregnancy in a nation ravaged by abortion after generations of Communist rule: the devaluing of the family, false assumptions about abortion, rejection of children with disabilities, and the stigma attached to adoption.
"Three years ago, the theme was 'Adoption, the noble choice,' because in Romania adoption is very complicated," Nadane said. Not only are adopted children stigmatized, but the state mandates that those children be handed over to orphanages to wait as long as three years for the state to choose their adoptive families.
Even without pressure from the state, abortion often appeals to women facing unexpected pregnancies as a more palatable option than adoption. All the more in Romania, where longtime Communist ruler Nicolae Ceausescu responded to askyrocketing abortion rate—as high as 80 percent of pregnancies ended in abortion during the mid-1960s and the early 1990s—with an equally repressive childbirth quota designed to rebuild a dying population.
With many Romanian women having gone through multiple abortions in their lives, Nadane's pro-life message is striking a deep chord within the heart of women who know firsthand the life-long devastation of abortion.
Now, Nadane and other pro-life workers in Romania are anxious to resurrect their nation's traditional love for its children. For some time, Nadane sought foreign experts in crisis pregnancy work, who would come to Romania and train pro-life workers.
"I had prayed for a training because in Romania we don't have experts on counseling women and organizing pregnancy centers," Nadane said.
Her prayers were answered when Heartbeat International—the world's largest network of locally operated pregnancy help organizations—sent longtime president and current board chairman Peggy Hartshorn, Ph.D., along with its maternity housing specialist Mary Peterson, to Bucharest this fall to train 70 pro-life volunteers from Romania, Moldova and Malta.
Hartshorn and Peterson were joined in Bucharest by Vesna Radeka, who serves as executive director of Choose Life Center, a Heartbeat affiliate in Serbia.
Focused on stimulating the region's few existing pregnancy centers while helping kick-start new efforts, the three women presented training materials and facilitated workshop discussions with the help of a translation team put together by Nadane. Eighty percent of the training participants did not have a pregnancy center in their hometown.
At the end of a question-and-answer time following Peterson's discussion of post-abortion trauma, most attendees expressed doubt that women would ever talk about their abortions or the effects of abortion on their families. But that was about to change.
"A brave woman stood up and passionately told the audience that she experienced great regret about the abortions in her life," Peterson said. "And as she has been open about that, she has encountered many, many women who express the same [feelings].
For many in the room, recognizing that they were "abortion survivors" was revolutionary.
"Even if you have not had an abortion, if your mother aborted siblings of yours, or if you know there have been abortions in your family, you then are an abortion survivor—a person who was not aborted but could have been," Hartshorn said. "That is a devastating realization.
More revelations lay ahead. As the trainers discussed fundraising, trainees lamented the absence of philanthropy in their national mindset. But they discovered hope in that arena, too.
Not only do a growing number of lay people show interest in pro-life ministry, but so do the clergy, as evidenced by the surprising number of men who attended the training, many of whom were seminarians studying for the priesthood.
Nowhere was that unity more apparent than during the inauguration of Nadane's new pregnancy center following the three-day training. Two high-ranking clergy performed a sanctification service, praying for the staff and volunteers of the new Counseling Center for Parents & Children, which the organization has named after St. Alexandra the Empress—the wife of the cruel emperor Diocletian who converted to Christianity after witnessing the torture and execution of St. George by her husband's decree.
In recognition of Nadane's pro-life work, during the inauguration, Father Ionuț Iordăchescu, Diocesan Counselor for Social and Philanthropic Mission at the Bucharest Archbishopric, gave her the Merit Award signed by His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church. Both men encouraged their people to follow Nadane's pioneering example.
In the absence of awareness of pregnancy help centers—and national guidelines for them—Nadane chose to conform to the laws for a counseling center, which require having a psychologist and a social worker on staff.
With fresh training in hand, Nadane and her staff have stepped into the gap to keep pregnant women in need from ever being ignored again.


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The 2014–15 East Carolina Pirates women's basketball team will represent East Carolina University during the 2014–15 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The season marks the first for the Pirates as members of the American Athletic Conference. The team, coached by 5th year head coach Heather Macy, plays their home games at Williams Arena at Minges Coliseum. They finished the season 22–11, 11–7 in AAC play to finish in a tie for fifth place. They advanced to the quarterfinals of the American Athletic women's tournament where they lost to Connecticut. They were invited to the Women's National Invitational Tournament where defeated Radford in the first round before losing to NC State in the second round.

Media
All Pirates home games will have a video stream on Pirates All Access, ESPN3, or AAC Digital. Road games will typically be streamed on the opponents website, though conference road games could also appear on ESPN3 or AAC Digital. Audio broadcasts for most road games can also be found on the opponents website.

Roster

Schedule and results

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See also
2014–15 East Carolina Pirates men's basketball team

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A Sun City woman has been named Professional Tennis Registry's Humanitarian of the Year.
Professional Tennis Registry (PTR) will present its annual awards this week during the 2012 PTR International Tennis Symposium. The event, which includes 50-plus on court and classroom presentations for tennis teachers and coaches, a tennis trade show and tournament is being held Friday to Tuesday at the Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress, in Orlando, Fla.
Diana Seggie, of Bluffton, South Carolina, has been named PTR Humanitarian of the Year.
Although her mother competed in Wimbledon, as a young girl, Seggie grew up very poor. Her young life was impacted greatly by the kindness and generosity of others, and today she is devoted to paying it forward.
In her native Zimbabwe, and later in South Africa, Seggie helped inner city kids, street children and disadvantaged school children ages 4-19. She wanted to give these youngsters a chance they would not have had otherwise. Seggie wanted to keep them off the streets and busy, and show them a different path, one with hope. Her vehicle - tennis!
When she and her husband, Mike, moved to the USA in 1989, that didn't sway her resolve. She saw many underprivileged children here in this land of plenty. Her concentration is now on those who desperately want to play tennis, but cannot afford the accoutrements.
Seggie travels from county to county and across state lines to bring free tennis lessons and clinics to poor kids with potential, and to some without talent. She collects racquets, tennis shoes and clothing from generous friends. Children who run to the courts enthusiastically wearing flip flops, leave with sneakers on their feet. Much to her husband's chagrin, their garage is packed floor to ceiling as donations come in as fast as they can be distributed. Mike calls it Di's Thrift Store.
Another passion is to bring tennis to wounded veterans. Having lived through war and witnessing its ravages, Seggie is trying to make her dream of tennis as a rehab option a reality. She was among the first to be PTR certified to teach wheelchair tennis.
Seggie sits on the Board of the Bluffton Benevolent Fund, and started a scholarship fund in her Sun City community that assists children continue with their tennis. She also volunteers with the coaches clinic's PTR's Special Olympics Championships.
Never one to draw attention to her endeavors, Seggie works under the radar helping others, just as she was helped many years ago.
As the recipient of the PTR Humanitarian Award, Seggie receives a $2,500 check from PTR Foundation Chairman Scott Tharp to continue her work. PTR Foundation is the charitable arm of Professional Tennis Registry.


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It didn't reach the lofty goal of a 10,000-strong crowd, but the inaugural The Hunter race meeting on Saturday was a "bloody good start" in the eyes of Newcastle Jockey Club chief Matt Benson. Newcastle Racecourse hosted a standalone Saturday meeting, meaning it was the top, metropolitan level program in NSW, attracting standard prizemoney of $125,000 a race. It was the first time the track had hosted such a meeting since 2000. It also featured The Hunter (1300 metres), a new $1 million race and the richest held at a provincial level club. When announcing The Hunter, and next Saturday's $1 million The Gong at Kembla Grange, in June this year, Racing NSW hoped to attract a crowd of 10,000 people to the Broadmeadow course. On Saturday, Mr Benson estimated a crowd of about 6000 at the meeting, which also featured the $160,000 group 3 Spring Stakes (1600m) for three-year-olds and Max Lees Classic (900m) for two-year-olds. Both had been moved from traditional slots to bolster the new program. And while the crowd was short of initial hopes, Mr Benson was thrilled with the meeting, which was held in ideal weather and with elite-level racing. "I reckon it's the best race meeting we've put on since I've been there," said Mr Benson, who has been chief executive of the NJC since early 2016. "For all our staff to pull off what they did today and do that good a job, with all the hurdles that have been thrown in front of us, they've just done a huge job. "I thought the crowd was really good. All the precincts that we had, everyone was well dressed, well behaved, the standard was excellent. I couldn't be happier. "The track was outstanding. The jockeys loved the track. We turned on what we hoped we'd turn on today, given all the realities we were working in." Mr Benson believed the popular Legends of League tournament nearby at McDonald Jones Stadium, and next weekend's Newcastle 500, may have taken away from The Hunter crowd. "The Supercars are next week and some people may have bought their tickets and decided they can do only one thing every couple of weeks, but I think it's a huge foundation for us to work from," he said. "That's the biggest crowd we've had since I've been in the job and it was clearly the best race day as far as races are concerned. It was the best event we've provided for the customers." Fund-raising activities at the meeting focused on the NSW Rural Fire Service, but more than $20,000 was also raised for the Westpac Rescue Helicopter Service at The Hunter Luncheon on Friday.
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Inaugural race meeting The Hunter off to a steady start
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BEAUTIFUL DAY: About 6000 people attended the inaugural The Hunter race day at Newcastle Racecourse on Saturday. Picture: Max Mason-Hubers
It didn't reach the lofty goal of a 10,000-strong crowd, but the inaugural The Hunter race meeting on Saturday was a "bloody good start" in the eyes of Newcastle Jockey Club chief Matt Benson.
Newcastle Racecourse hosted a standalone Saturday meeting, meaning it was the top, metropolitan level program in NSW, attracting standard prizemoney of $125,000 a race. It was the first time the track had hosted such a meeting since 2000.
It also featured The Hunter (1300 metres), a new $1 million race and the richest held at a provincial level club.
When announcing The Hunter, and next Saturday's $1 million The Gong at Kembla Grange, in June this year, Racing NSW hoped to attract a crowd of 10,000 people to the Broadmeadow course.
On Saturday, Mr Benson estimated a crowd of about 6000 at the meeting, which also featured the $160,000 group 3 Spring Stakes (1600m) for three-year-olds and Max Lees Classic (900m) for two-year-olds. Both had been moved from traditional slots to bolster the new program.
And while the crowd was short of initial hopes, Mr Benson was thrilled with the meeting, which was held in ideal weather and with elite-level racing.
"I reckon it's the best race meeting we've put on since I've been there," said Mr Benson, who has been chief executive of the NJC since early 2016.
"For all our staff to pull off what they did today and do that good a job, with all the hurdles that have been thrown in front of us, they've just done a huge job.
"I thought the crowd was really good. All the precincts that we had, everyone was well dressed, well behaved, the standard was excellent. I couldn't be happier.
"The track was outstanding. The jockeys loved the track. We turned on what we hoped we'd turn on today, given all the realities we were working in."
Mr Benson believed the popular Legends of League tournament nearby at McDonald Jones Stadium, and next weekend's Newcastle 500, may have taken away from The Hunter crowd.
"The Supercars are next week and some people may have bought their tickets and decided they can do only one thing every couple of weeks, but I think it's a huge foundation for us to work from," he said.
"That's the biggest crowd we've had since I've been in the job and it was clearly the best race day as far as races are concerned. It was the best event we've provided for the customers."
Fund-raising activities at the meeting focused on the NSW Rural Fire Service, but more than $20,000 was also raised for the Westpac Rescue Helicopter Service at The Hunter Luncheon on Friday.