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Introduction to Mera and Island Peak Climbing
Mera and Island Peak Climbing Package is a combination of these two peaks. Mera Peak (6,654 m) and Island Peak (6,189 m) are famous trekking peaks located in the Everest region of Nepal. It is a great achievement to cross a challenging high pass and reach the top of two magnificent peaks above 6,000 meters on the same trip.
Mera and Island Peak Climbing is a good combination of trekking and climbing in the Everest region which is a perfect experience for the adventure lover. The journey is categorized as difficult as it consists of two majestic peaks above 6,000 meters, a technically challenging pass, and seven consecutive nights at an altitude of over 5,000 meters.
From the top of the peak, you get a magnificent view of the mountains above 8000 meters such as Mount Everest (8,848 m), Mount Kanchenjunga (8,586 m), Mount Lhotse (8,516 m), Mount Makalu (8,485 m), and Mount Cho Oyu (8,201 m).
Aside from the climbing period, the trekking portion takes you to remote mountain valleys. Trip offers the opportunity to explore the unique authentic Sherpa culture, traditions, religion, and lifestyle.
During Mera and Island Peak Climbing trip, you will also cross many suspension bridges, dense rhododendron forests, and beautiful ancient settlements with magnificent Himalayan views. Most of the people living in these areas are Buddhists where you can also see monasteries.
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A Difficult Climbing Trip
Climbing two peaks on the same trip is relatively difficult compared to other trekking peaks. But with an experienced climbing guide and some of your effort, you can conquer the peaks. No special technical training is required but physical fitness, trekking experience, and climbing skills are required. The guide gives you basic pre-climbing training and short instructions before climbing.
Basic teahouses are available on the trekking route but tented camps must be arranged during the climbing period. We provide all the equipment you need for trekking and climbing or you can rent it. All team members must have insurance for any peak climb. And also must have a license registered under the Nepal Mountaineering Association (NMA) with the climbing guide.
The best season for Mera and Island Peak Climbing is spring (March to May) and autumn (September to November). Although winter is also a good season if you prepare well to face the cold weather. The mountain views are crystal clear in winter and there are fewer trekkers than in spring and autumn.
Check out our itinerary which covers all aspects of trekking and climbing. Let us know if our itinerary is not suitable for you, we will tailor it to your needs. Join us and make your trip the most unforgettable moment of your life by climbing two famous peaks in one trip to the Himalayan country of Nepal.
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Mera & Island Peak Climbing in 19 days, Cost, Itinerary, Climbing Distance
Fly Kathmandu to Lukla (45 minutes) and trek to Chutok (2,800 m) - 3 to 4 hours walk.
Chutok to Zatrabok (4,600 m) via Zatrawala Pass (4,704 m) - 6 to 7 hours walk.
Zatrabok to Kothe (3,600 m) - 5 to 6 hours walk.
Kothe to Tangnang (4,356 m) - 5 to 6 hours walk.
Free day.
Trek to Khare (5,045 m) - 4 to 5 hours walk.
Acclimatization at Khare.
Khare to Mera La (5,415 m) and Base Camp (5,300 m) - 5 to 6 hours walk.
Base Camp to High Camp (5,800 m) - 5 to 6 hours walk.
Summit Mera Peak (6,461 m) and trek to Kongma Dingma (4,850 m) - 7 to 8 hours walk.
Kongma Dingma to Seto Pokhari (5,000 m) - 5 to 6 hours walk.
Seto Pokhara to Amphu Laptsa High Camp (5,400 m) - 5 to 6 hours walk.
Cross Amphu Laptsa (5,845 m) and trek to Imja Valley - 9 to 10 hours walk.
Imja Valley to Island Peak High Camp (5,600 m) - 5 to 6 hours walk.
Summit Island Peak (6,189 m) and trek to Chhukung Village - 9 to 10 hours walk.
Extra summit day
Chhukung Village to Namche (3,440 m) - 7 to 8 hours walk.
Namche to Lukla (2,800 m) - 7 to 8 hours walk.
Fly Lukla to Kathmandu – 45 minutes.
Accomodation Tea House/Camping
Trip Style Peak Climbing in Nepal
Trip Grade Strenuous
Max Altitude 6,654 m


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Q: How to combine two mySQL queries when LEFT JOIN is further to be restricted by date range I have two mySQL tables, customers and invoices. The both tables have customer account number that are used to link them together.
The invoices table have also a date of the invoice amonst the other data.
What I am trying to query is: "customers that have not been invoiced in certain time range"
If I exclude the time range then I can get the list of customers that have not been invoiced any time using LEFT JOIN i.e.
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I was hoping that I could somehow execute first the second query that selects the data within certain time range, and then use the result as a part of the LEFT JOIN query, but not have managed to find a way yet. Perhaps someone could help? Thank you very much.

A: you could use a not in clause for avoid the account that have invoice the time range you need
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A: When you would use GROUP BY instead of DISTINCT, you could use the HAVING clause for this:
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Muhtar has achieved a remarkable success as the CEO of the Coca Cola Company. He has inspired many of us with his success and commitment to improving relations between Turkey and the US. In my case, as an investor, I have taken great lessons from Muhtar and Coca-Cola Company. I read the annual reports, attended many investor meetings and listened to quarterly earnings calls, but most importantly, I read almost every interview Muhtar granted to press. Here are some of the important lessons I learned from him.
Once Muhtar became the CEO, he had two priorities: establishing a long-term growth vision- which he called Vision 2020- and restoring sales growth in North America. USA is the only western country with population that is growing. A report shows that by 2040 only a quarter of the US population will be aged over 60, compared with 30% in Europe and 40% in Japan. Muhtar discovered that the company was in grown. The company was not considering that the world was changing. He stopped those internal meetings and invited top 400 people from all over the world. He wanted to understand how the company got sucked into this place and he was determined to make a fresh start. He started to work closely with the company's bottling partners. He was able to cut more than $0.5 billion dollars of unnecessary expenses and reallocated these funds for coca-cola brand's growth. He even convinced some of the bottling partners to invest into the company.
Muhtar emphasizes that every day is an opportunity to start or strengthen a relationship. He always emphasizes on the business principle which states that an executive should never eat alone. Cultivating these relationships could lead to incredible opportunities for everyone involved. This requires being there at good times and the bad times. He proudly points out that the single most important element he brought to his role as the Chairman and CEO of The Coca Cola Company was to build good friendships and networking.
Here is a great example: In 1990, Muhtar- then 36 years old- was charged with leading Coca-Cola's entry into former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe after the fall of Berlin Wall. There was no bottling plants and no distribution systems. The challenge was to set up more than 20 bottling plants and a modern distribution system across 23 nations serving 350 Million people; literally within few months. He met a doctor when he was sick, and soon they became friends. That doctor later became the Prime Minister of Albania and in a couple of years, Coca Cola had several bottling plants in that country.
Early in his career, Muhtar was sent to Rome as the head advertising and sales. After two and half years on the job, the office was shut down because there was nothing to do. As he was about to pack up and leave for US, someone inside the company whom he had met once phoned him and offered him a job in Amsterdam giving him a break. A relationship that he nurtured before gave him a break. Developing and nurturing relationships served him immensely at various stages of in his career.
Corporate social responsibility is seen as not detrimental to a company's profits. Some believe it is essential to company's long term brand and value. Muhtar is one of those people. Coca Cola believes that if it can help create sustainable communities, communities will help the company to have a sustainable business.
Coca Cola has been focusing on programs centered on water conservation, women's rights and environmental protection. All these are essential for the business. The company has been emphasizing in water conservation in 800-plus bottling plants, which also helps with the overall cost of production. Coca Cola is also committed to empowering 5 million women by 2020. Its micro distribution centers in Africa are run mostly by women, who help Coca Cola reach small shops and kiosks.
Coca Cola aims to create exciting opportunities where sustainability and production intersect. It takes pride in reducing packaging, energy, water footprints and improve the wellbeing of communities it served and operated in. Under Muhtar's supervision, Coca Cola also was the first beverage company that declared water neutrality as a goal. Another initiative was to come up with a plant-based bottle, which was recyclable. Today about 30% of coca cola bottles use resin made from sugarcane. Aside from saving the environment, plant based bottles gives the company a cost advantage when the oil prices go up. This initiative helped Dasani water to increase its sales as it has been a tremendous boost to its brand value.
One of the important business ideas Muhtar uses is constructive discontent. It is a way of recognizing achievement with the caveat of also understanding that one can never be satisfied with achievement. Muhtar believes that one must refuse to accept status quo and continue to challenge , by setting higher goals and expectations and aim to meet or exceed them. We need to fuse operating with a lens of optimism together with lens of reality temper appropriately. Attached to this constructive discontent, he also welcomes competition from principal international and local competitors for a healthy growth.
Muhtar is a declared feminist. He has a strong track record of acting in a committed way, positively discriminating against women who work for him. He is a firm believer of balancing social and economic values to succeed economically. When Muhtar became the CEO of Coca Cola in 2009, he noticed a contrast: while 70% of Coca Cola consumers were female, there were only two women on the corporate board and female senior leadership was in the low teens. By 2015, Muhtar doubled the number of women in the board (from two to four, out of a total of 15). Under Muhtar's leadership, the company has launched a 5 by 20 program, with the goal of providing economic empowerment to 5 million women by 2020. This initiative also had a strong business logic and element into it. Having loyal women retailers with entrepreneurial skills ultimately helps the company. He precisely and rightfully defines it as the golden triangle: getting more women on the board, aiming gender parity in senior leadership, and doing something meaningful for women outside the company.
Muhtar has not only been a great businessman, and inspiration but he also thought all of us valuable lessons and principles in our careers. And he is a role model and his contribution to Turkish community and Turkish-American Relationships is an achievement in its own category we are all grateful for.
• Altan Ergün is an advisory board member of TurkofAmerica Magazine and a global investor with a keen interest in geopolitics.


In the same league as espadrilles and fedora hats, there are some fashion items that simply sing summer. They only come out when the sun is beaming and, likewise, you hurriedly pack them away come autumn to collect dust until the following year. Basket bags are one of these.
Made of straw or jute, the tote-style bags first made their rounds in the 50s and 60s and were a favourite of the film stars and It-girls (granted, when they managed to escape the UK for sunnier climes). So you can bet our inner Brigitte Bardot-wannabes were thrilled to see them popping up again for summer 2017.
What's best about basket bags is that they are practical and versatile. There's no need to worry about staining, and sand? Simply brush it off and carry on sashaying down the beach in your chic swimsuit as a 50s starlet would have done.


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A: You'll have to be prepared that type inference in Java 6 / 7 compilers is not up to par with Java 8 / Java 9 compilers.
So, sometimes a statement / expression that compiles with 8 can't be compiled unchanged with 6 or 7. Providing a type witness usually helps the compiler figure out the correct types in Java 6 / 7.
I would do it this way (this works for me with javac from Oracle JDK 1.7.0_80):
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The Court houses a steel concrete, double rod enforced jailhouse that can hold even the most powerful of criminals. It features a full fledged court room complete with juror box as well as an executioner's room on the roof. The building is constructed with a special mineral imported from Earth that wards off any and all spell casting called Hecatolite which is a form of feldspar, often referred to as "Moonstone".


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Here Are All the Latino Artists Playing Lollapalooza
Jessie Reyez. Photo by James Bernal for Remezcla
By Cheky | 1 year ago
The U.S. festival season is featuring more and more Latino talent this year. Following lineup announcements from Coachella and Panorama NYC, the original Chicago version of Lollapalooza is showcasing a healthy lineup of Latino artists for its return to Grant Park on August 2-5.
Up there in the headlining spot with the likes of The Weeknd, Jack White, and Arctic Monkeys is Bruno Mars, still at the top of his game after dominating the Grammys last month. "Havana" singer and former Fifth Harmony member Camila Cabello is also set to perform, as well as Kali Uchis and Grizzy Garcia, (aka Lil Pump). Fast-rising Chicano star Cuco, who will also play Coachella and Governors Ball, adds another high-profile festival to his upcoming list of gigs. Jesse Baez's inclusion on the lineup is a great and welcome surprise.
Festival mainstays Bomba Estéreo are bringing the party to Chicago after touring with Arcade Fire, and, from the other side of the spectrum, trio Cigarettes After Sex will tone things down with their ambient pop. Up-and-coming R&B divas Sabrina Claudio and Jessie Reyez complete the lineup. Check out the complete lineup below.
Lollapalooza takes place in Grant Park, Chicago, on August 2-5. Tickets are now available here.
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For Auckland composer and music teacher Warwick Blair it has been a long journey to come full circle. In the late Eighties he won a scholarship to the Conservatorium in The Hague but during his studies was drawn to aspects of pop music of the period. He formed the band Glory Box and went to London.
"We had success there and recorded, we were a bit influenced by Dead Can Dance [the group helmed by Lisa Gerrard, who did the Gladiator soundtrack] and This Mortal Coil. It was taking techniques I had learned and trying to transplant them into a pop sensibility," says Blair.
"While there I did some ads and sang in the chorus of Stargate, and was in a band called Mandalay as keyboardist and orchestral arranger. Looking back, I think of it as first-hand research into pop culture, and now I'm trying to integrate that into the classical stuff I'm writing, similar to what I was doing before I went away, actually."
Blair returned to New Zealand in the late Nineties and through film and soundtrack work, got into advertising. He did ad music for Sky Television and the New Zealand Navy, and provided the catwalk sonics for Karen Walker's show in 1998 based on the theme of electricity.
"But increasingly, advertising was unfulfilling. I got sick of the soulless quality of it and had to get back to what I was writing before I went away.
It wasn't about art but was based on commerce."
For the past two years he has lectured in Sound and Popular Music at the university, introducing students to computer technology, electronic music, analysis of soundtracks and writing for film. But he has also returned to writing his own music.
In 2004 he previewed two pieces of a longer work, Accordion, with an ensemble which includes pianist Rae De Lisle, percussionists Frank Gibson and Ron Samson, and keyboardist Stephen Small. It was conducted by John Elmsly.
The work tries to integrate aspects and sensibilities of popular music into the stripped-back forms of art music.
The piece Harp, for example, uses only two chords.
"I've developed a new form called mosaic. It consists of cells which are made visible or invisible, depending on the shape imposed on them, like coming along with a cookie-cutter and whacking it on top.
"That gives the overall shape, but under that are cells which are constantly being repeated, although the cookie-cutter form determines whether we hear them or not. It's something I'm trying to develop."
Blair's five-movement Accordion -- written on computers but transcribed and scored for live muscians -- appeared on the album of the same name in 2005.
What catches you off-guard with Accordion, however, is the quasi-ambient nature of the integrated, five-part work which features an enormous artillery of instruments from guitar, trumpet and harp, to piano, percussion, voices and electronics. Given that firepower it would be reasonable to expect something if not Wagnerian in scope, then at least with the punch of a Phil Spector production.
Yet Blair's engrossingly hypnotic pieces -- each around 10 minutes, which is long enough to pull you in but not outstay its welcome -- are subtle soundscapes which might have come from a documentary about space, deserts or the tides. They recall the ambient explorations of Brian Eno.
With evocative, oceanic swells of electronics or instruments which then drift back to the merest trickle of sounds, this is music cinematic in conception but also so inviting of reflection as to be highly personal.
In places - the final section of Trumpet for example - there is a tonal quality which suggests North African music, in others - the beats which drive the most up-tempo sections, Yes and Your My - hints of vigorous dance floor pop.
The final track is beamed in from another cosmos.
Accordion in places conforms to Eno's description of ambient music being as ignorable as it is enjoyable, but it rewards close attention to the details of melody and sonic texture which bind the whole together.


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Bernie Tries to Steal the Rich Man's Party
Glen Ford, BAR executive editor
The plutocrats did not invest billions of dollars every election cycle in the Democratic Party to see it used as a tool of their disempowerment.
"Here comes Bernie Sanders -- again -- threatening to mobilize millions to seize control of the oligarchs' favored party of governance."
Having launched his second campaign for the presidency on Tuesday, Bernie Sanders is now the recurring nightmare of corporate Democrats: an old lefty who speaks the language of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal in the age of endless capitalist austerity and war. Sanders' signature proposals on Medicare for All, free higher education, a $15 an hour minimum wage, and dramatically higher taxes on the rich, are supportd by super-majorities of the Democratic electorate, most independent voters, and even about half of Republicans. On top of that winning array of issues, younger self-styled "socialists" have put forward a Green New Deal that is both wildly popular and potentially transformative of the oligarchic order.
"The Party is not a democratic institution, but an embedded apparatus of capitalist governance, control of which is not negotiable."
If there was anything "democratic" about the Democratic Party, Sanders would be the consensus choice for the nomination and an odds-on favorite to evict Donald Trump from the White House in 2020 -- a fact painfully understood by the institutional servants of capital, if not the oligarchs, themselves. However, the Party is not a democratic institution, but an embedded apparatus of capitalist governance, control of which is not negotiable. If anything, the Democratic Party has become even more strategically vital to capitalist governance, in the U.S. and globally, since the takeover of the Republican half of the electoral duopoly by the erratic and untrustworthy real estate magnate, Donald Trump. The bulk of the ruling class has arrayed itself against Trump in the most serious split among the Lords of Capital since the Great Depression, throwing the whole system into a crisis of legitimacy. For most of finance and high tech capital, the Democratic Party has become an indispensable tool whose loss is unthinkable. But, here comes Bernie Sanders – again -- threatening to mobilize millions to seize control of the oligarchs' favored party of governance. When combined with the raging crisis of legitimacy, this is a volatile brew.
"For most of finance and high tech capital, the Democratic Party has become an indispensable tool whose loss is unthinkable."
The billionaires will never assent to allow the Democratic Party to be deployed against their core policies of endless war and austerity: the ruling class consensus. Bernie Sanders "socialism" is not the issue. The Lords of Capital know as well as real Marxists do, that Sanders is a "semantic" socialist, not the kind they are sworn to kill (or else he would likely be dead already). But, Sanders' New Deal proposals would mean an end to domestic austerity, and would almost certainly also unleash irresistible pressures to dramatically shrink the war budget. This is totally unacceptable to the Lords of Capital and their servants, whose political task is to pacify society while wealth and power continue to devolve to an ever-shrinking group of oligarchs. The very idea of redistribution is anathema, a Pandora's box that must not be opened, lest it never be shut. Endless warfare keeps the people's minds on fake "existential" problems ("Russians") instead of the real, metastasizing crises of capitalism.
"Sanders' New Deal proposals would mean an end to domestic austerity."
Therefore, Bernie Sanders' non-socialism is perceived by the rulers as almost as dangerous as the real thing. In truth, Sanders' agenda is derived almost wholly from Franklin Roosevelt's "Economic Bill of Rights," spelled out in an annual address to Congress on January 11, 1944. Roosevelt's rights included:
*The right to a useful and remunerative job in the industries or shops or farms or mines of the nation;
*The right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation;
*The right of every farmer to raise and sell his products at a return which will give him and his family a decent living;
*The right of every businessman, large and small, to trade in an atmosphere of freedom from unfair competition and domination by monopolies at home or abroad;
*The right of every family to a decent home.
*The right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health;
*The right to adequate protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident, and unemployment;
*The right to a good education.
Corporate Democrats have been turning their back on the Roosevelt legacy ever since…well, ever since FDR's death, but with shameless abandon beginning in the 1970s. It's been so long since actual New Deal rhetoric has been part of the national conversation, it passes for socialism in the American bubble. Bernie Sanders spelled out his "socialism" in an interview with CBS News shortly after announcing his second presidential run:
"I believe that people are inherently entitled to health care. I believe people are entitled to get the best education they can. I believe that people are entitled to live in a clean environment, People are entitled to have decent-paying jobs."
"It's been so long since actual New Deal rhetoric has been part of the national conversation, it passes for socialism."
Sanders said he's "not talking about the government running the local grocery store." He's also not talking about overthrowing the rule of capital -- which is fundamental to any notion of socialism. But, when systems are in crisis, slippery slopes appear everywhere, real and imagined.
Sanders' program does not directly threaten the rule of capital, but it would spell the end of the Age of Austerity. And, although some billionaires may be reconciled to sharing a portion of their wealth in the interest of social peace, there is nothing remotely approaching a consensus on redistribution among the Lords of Capital. At any rate, the plutocrats did not invest billions of dollars every election cycle in the Democratic Party to see it used as a tool of their disempowerment. If Sanders insists on playing FDR, the Lords of Capital are determined that he do so in one of the small, non-governing parties. They will take all measures necessary to keep control of the Democratic apparatus, especially while Trump remains the top Republican.
"Sanders' program does not directly threaten the rule of capital, but it would spell the end of the Age of Austerity."
The Party is dutifully carrying out its masters' orders. Shortly after the votes were counted this past November House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had her minions meet with insurance corporation executives to assure them she would block Medicare for All from becoming law, by hook or crook. (See "Pelosi Sabotages Medicare for All, But Corporate Media Pretend Not to Notice," BAR, February 13). The corporate Democratic establishment moved early to field a colorful menagerie of presidential candidates in hopes of rendering Bernie Sanders irrelevant, or just hopelessly late. For good measure, they assigned two youngish Black senators, one of them a woman, to lay a trap for Sanders in the southern primaries, sparking a predictable (and infinitely cynical) scramble among the Black Misleadership Class to coalesce around the "Black" candidate -- almost certainly, the laughing corporatist Kamala Harris. Both Booker and Harris caught a (laughable) case of Me-Too'ism in preparation for their block-Sanders mission, claiming to have suddenly converted to the Church of Medicare for All.
The New York Times, Washington Post, CNN and PBS either ignored Sanders and his frequent speech-making, or tried to make it seem as if he had missed the train. But the old New Dealer finally made it official, on Tuesday:
"Our campaign is taking on the powerful special interests that dominate our economic and political life. I'm talking about Wall Street, the health insurance companies, the drug companies, the fossil fuel industry, the military industrial complex, the private prison industry and the large multinational corporations that exert such an enormous influence over our lives," said Sanders.
"Both Booker and Harris caught a (laughable) case of Me-Too'ism in preparation for their block-Sanders mission."
Sanders is calling forth a movement -- as opposed to the faux-movement orchestrated by Barack Obama, in 2008. "The only way we will win this election and create a government and economy that work for all is with a grassroots movement -- the likes of which has never been seen in American history…. [W]e need at least a million people to join our campaign and help lead the movement that can accomplish these goals."
It took only 12 hours for Sanders to raise $4 million from 150,000 mainly small donors, averaging $27 apiece. In contrast, corporatist Democrat show horse Kamala Harris took a full day to raise just $1.5 million. In 2016, Sanders amassed a phenomenal $228 million for his anti-corporate war chest, mostly from small donors.
The Sanders campaign, or the Sanders "movement," if such a thing crystallizes, will not be allowed to defeat the Lords of Capital on their own bought-and-paid-for property: the Democratic Party. At this strange and ominous juncture in history, with the ruling class's media organs incessantly blathering that the Republican President is a vassal of the Kremlin, the Democratic Party IS the party of the ruling class -- the only party they've securely got. It is inconceivable that the richest ruling class in the world would surrender such an indispensable political apparatus – crippling their ability to govern the rest of us – under any circumstances. Sanders must either be defeated -- by any means necessary – or be forced to capitulate under terms acceptable to the Lords of Capital (or, he can be incapacitated or killed).
"Sanders is calling forth a movement."
There's nothing in Sanders' history that marks him as a hero. In the end, he'll fold, like last time around. But the whole world will bear witness to the perversions of democracy that the Democratic Party is preparing to inflict on Bernie and his movement. It would be poetic justice for Sanders, a purported socialist whose sense of solidarity is limited to European social democrats, were to have his democratic rights gang-raped in the full light of day, as has been the fate of so many folks in poor non-white countries targeted by the U.S. war machine, with not a peep from Bernie.
In the end, the Democratic Party may be so discredited it's not worth keeping, and the people will have to find other places to make politics.
BAR executive editor Glen Ford can be contacted at [email protected].
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A huge, destructive wildfire burning about 11 miles east of Westcliffe was sparked by a metal outbuilding that was blown into a power line.
The Junkins fire, which started early Monday morning in gusty winds, has destroyed five homes and 13 outbuildings, according to the Pueblo County Sheriff's Office.
As of 5 p.m. Tuesday, the fire has scorched 16,312 acres and is 0 percent contained.
Evacuation and pre-evacuation notices for Pueblo County residents in the area posted on Monday remain in affect. About 2,500 people are under pre-evacuation orders, 82 properties have been evacuated, and 990 properties in the Beulah area are under pre-evacuation.
The fire, which is burning through mostly mixed conifer, aspen and grass, is threatening at least 280 homes.
There have been no reports of injuries or deaths. The fire raced through acreage Monday in high winds but slowed dramatically Tuesday as winds calmed.
More than 100 animals — at least 67 large livestock and 36 small livestock — have been evacuated from the fire area and are being penned at the state fairgrounds in Pueblo, the Custer County Fairgrounds and Draper Ranch. The livestock includes horses, goats, rabbits and llamas.


If we can cast our minds back to the Gulf War and Afghanistan War, we can see from my previous story that contamination was not only restricted to the Middle East Region, but also had the ability to travel vast distances. The fact is that in only a period of 7-9 days this same DU contamination had planted its seeds in the atmosphere and soil of the United Kingdom.
No one could have imagined that this silent killer was free to roam the planet once it had entered the earth's atmosphere. It didn't have to purchase an airline ticket, but simply hitched a free ride on the back of whatever pressure system happened to be around at the time (high or low pressure). Once this carcinogenic had wrapped itself around the many vortices of the world's weather, its final lethal destination remained unknown.
Chris Busby and Dai Williams have both worked tirelessly on the issues of Depleted Uranium and Enriched Uranium, and after studying their respective reports I have found their contents faultless. My research also involved studies carried out by Leuren Moret, an Environmental Scientist who worked at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and 2 years at the Livermore Nuclear Weapons Establishment. She has dedicated her life to revealing and understanding the actual health effects of radiation exposure, Dr Rosalie Bertell, Ph.D., GNSH, Canadian Epidemiologist who has contributed so much research in this area, and finally Dr Doug Rokke, former head of the Pentagon's Depleted Uranium Project who himself is suffering from DU contamination. The world owes so much to these dedicated experts.
A memo prepared October 30, 1943 stated that the material used in the atomic bomb could be "ground into particles of microscopic size to form dust and smoke and distributed by a ground-fired projectile, land vehicles, or aerial bombs. In this form it would be inhaled by personnel. The amount necessary to cause death to a person inhaling the material is extremely small. It has been estimated that one millionth of a gram accumulating in a person's body would be fatal. There are no known methods of treatment for such a casualty.
An off-setting factor in its effectiveness as a weapon is that in a dust or smoke form the material is so finely pulverized that it takes on the characteristic of a quickly dissipating gas, and is therefore subject to all the factors (such as wind) working against maintenance of high concentrations for more than a few minutes over a given area.
Leuren went on to say: And what they recommended to General Groves was that he develops radioactive materials, including depleted uranium, into a military weapon that could be used on the battlefield. In the details of their memos they described grinding it to up to 0.1µ [1/10 of micron], which is very, very fine particles. This is smaller than bacteria. It would behave like a gas. It diffuses into the lungs and gets into the blood. It completely contaminates the environment and denies access to both the enemy and friendly forces without being exposed.
It also said that it goes through gas masks. It goes through filters-air filters. It's impossible to filter out the very fine particles. And there is no protective clothing that can be designed to protect you from exposure.
In more recent times I want to play particular attention to the Israeli–Lebanese conflict in 2006 followed by the most recent conflict in the Israeli–Gaza conflict 2008/9 in which an array of weapons were used. I would even go further and say that Gaza became a testing laboratory for US and IDF weaponry.
A bomb was dropped above the town of Khiam in Southern Lebanon, 25 July 2006, by the Israeli Air force A Preliminary report by Chris Busby and Dai Williams revealed evidence that this was no ordinary bomb but rather a dirty bomb containing Enriched Uranium.
The report said samples from this crater (obtained by Dai Williams himself) showed elevated levels of radiation (these samples tested positive at Harwell Laboratory in Oxfordshire). The use of such weapons in Southern Lebanon also managed to contaminate the Northern part of Israel within approximately one hour. Rain eventually came to the region where it then entered the food chain.
From 2007 onwards I started to study many issues relating to Gaza, covering especially the potential exploitation of the Gaza Marine Area by Israel. This research further extended into maritime international borders, Oslo Accord failures, collapse of the Gaza's fishing industry, war crimes and the array of illegal weapons used before, during and after Israel's attack on Gaza.
"They are creating billions and billions and billions of superfine particles. These do not settle out by gravity. Gravitational forces do not pull them out of the air. They stay suspended. They act like a radioactive gas".
It was as a result of all these horrible findings that I decided to accept an invitation to travel by boat on the "Free Gaza" to break the blockade. My main and only purpose was to raise awareness to the local government and the people of Gaza. It was to have been a brief on all the many issues relating to Oil/Gas, Fishing, and International Border Clarification, War Crimes, Weapons used and the aftermath of the contamination by both Depleted Uranium and Enriched Uranium weapons.


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Justice? wake up to yourself Western Australia
Comments by the Chief Justice of Western Australia and associated media reports reveal a simplistic, unhelpful view of the complex factors contributing to the over-incarceration of Aboriginal people, according to public health practitioner Summer May Finlay.
Finlay, a Yorta Yorta woman, a member of the #JustJustice team, and a PhD candidate, suggests that, rather than perpetuating negative stereotypes of Aboriginal people, the WA Government and justice systems need to take stock of their own contributions to over-incarceration.
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Summer May Finlay writes:
Comments made yesterday in Perth by the Chief Justice of Western Australia, Wayne Martin, at the Senate committee inquiry into Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander experiences of law enforcement and justice systems, hurt Aboriginal people.
He stated that Aboriginal children intentionally commit crimes so they are incarcerated so they can have a safe place to sleep and get a good meal. He also said that Child Protection Officers were fearful of removing children because of the Stolen Generations. These comment have been used as headlines used by some media outlets.
The comments effectively absolve Western Australia and the Chief Justice himself of any responsibility for the issues facing Aboriginal people in that State.
Without understanding the context of Aboriginal affairs in Western Australia, his comment implies that the responsibility for these children lies solely with parents. The comments continue to perpetrate the myth that all Aboriginal parents are neglectful at best and abusive at worst.
There is no doubt that parents have responsibility for their children but what also needs to be recognised – although this rarely happens – is the impact that past and current policies have on Aboriginal people.
Western Australia is a State that has the highest Aboriginal adult and juvenile incarceration rates. Aboriginal adults are 70% more likely and Aboriginal children are 58 times more likely to be incarcerated in Western Australia than in other states. This is the State that continued to remove children until the mid 1970s for no other reason then they were Aboriginal (estimated up to 30% between the early 1900s and 1970s).
It has been found that Aboriginal people are 74% more likely to be reconvicted at any given time than those who receive a non-custodial penalty, yet Western Australia is less likely to divert Aboriginal juveniles than their non-Aboriginal counterparts.
In 2009, a 12-year-old Aboriginal boy was charged with receiving stolen goods; a $0.70 Freddo Frog.
This is a State which in 2014 tried to introduce laws allowing the Minister to permit access to Aboriginal sites if he deems it appropriate regardless of whether what Traditional Owners wanted.
Western Australia, in 2014 reduced its education budget, cutting 110 Aboriginal and Islander Education Officer positions. This is a State which this year, despite the ongoing health disparity between Aboriginal people and other Australians, has halved its Aboriginal health budget.
This is a State which wanted to close Aboriginal communities because they are not consider financially viable, regardless of the connection people have to country. Western Australia has time and time again shown its lack of concern for the wellbeing for Aboriginal people – and then lays the blame for their own disadvantage at their feet.
Youth incarceration needs to be framed as a social issue that requires involvement from parents and the state for a successful solution. Diversionary programs, such as Justice Reinvestment, which is being trialled in New South Wales and considered in South Australia, need to be introduced and utilised. This would give young people Aboriginal people options.
The Chief Justice also suggested that Child Protection officers were reluctant to remove Aboriginal children for fear of another Stolen Generation, implying more children need to be removed.
It is well documented that Aboriginal people are more likely to experience high levels of stress, racism, financial difficulties and higher rates of chronic disease. Where is the recognition that support is needed for Aboriginal parents who are finding life challenging? Or that early support and working with people will assist them to give their children a better start in life?
There is evidence that out of home care has detrimental effects on Aboriginal children, due to lost connection to family, culture and country. Research has also shown that children removed from their families were almost twice as likely to come in contact with the justice system.
Shouldn't we be considering early support programs for families struggling in attempt to break the cycle of poverty and incarceration? With an estimated 30 per cent of children removed from their families in Western Australia, is it any wonder some people are struggling as parents?
Through its justice system, child protection laws, heritage act, budget cuts and proposed closures of Aboriginal communities, Western Australia has continued to marginalise and discriminate against Aboriginal people.
Rather than working with Aboriginal people on solutions to the issues they face, it seems the State would rather blame them. The State ignores the complex set of factors that are at play when a young person comes in contact with the court system. These factors vary from young person to young person.
Over-simplifying the issues does nothing to assist young people and their families. Western Australia needs to consider the role it plays in the continuing high levels of incarceration of Aboriginal young people.
The very fact that the comment was made and then seized on by the media continues to promote stereotypes of Aboriginal people, without considering the broader social issues at play. It continues to demonstrate Australia has a long way to go in developing healthy race relations.
People in position of power and the media who rely on stereotyping in their description of Aboriginal people do so much harm.
Rather than stereotyping, what we need is a mature debate about the issues and roles and responsibilities – not just of Aboriginal people, but also of our state and federal governments.
We need an approach to reducing incarceration which is holistic and considers all the factors including education, health, housing, country, Culture and early support programs.
I suggest that the Western Australian Government and the Chief Justice need to take stock of their own failings.
Maybe then real gains might be made to reduce incarceration rates of young people and we can see #JustJustice.
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De Kerk van de heilige apostelen Filippus en Jacobus (Litouws: Šv. apaštalų Pilypo ir Jokūbo bažnyčia; Pools: Kościół św. Jakuba i Filipa) is een barokke kerk in Vilnius, Litouwen.

De kerk wordt beheerd door de orde van de predikheren (Dominicanen) en de heilige missen worden er afwisselend in het Pools en Litouws gevierd.

Geschiedenis

De eerste kerk van de Dominicanen buiten de stadsmuren, die al eerder de Heilige Geestkerk in het centrum van de stad bouwden, werd in 1624 in de buurt van een begraafplaats gesticht. De kerk werd gewijd aan de apostelen Jacobus en Filippus. Het kerkgebouw viel tijdens de Pools-Russische Oorlog in 1655 ten prooi aan vlammen en werd herbouwd, maar brandde vervolgens in 1684 opnieuw af. De Dominicanen besloten in 1690 daarom een geheel nieuwe stenen kerk te bouwen in 1690, waarvan de werkzaamheden zich tot 1737 zouden gaan voltrekken.

De kerk bezit een miraculeus icoon van de Heilige Maagd, ooit door de Polen als buit meegenomen uit Rusland. De gevel heeft twee nissen waarin in recente tijden een oud beeld van Sint-Dominicus, de stichter van de orde, en een houten beeld van Sint-Hyacinthus, de apostel van het noorden, werden geplaatst. De gevel wordt geflankeerd door twee torens met een barokke bekroning.

De Fransen verdreven tijdens de veldtocht van Napoleon naar Rusland in 1812 de kloosterlingen en gebruikten het klooster in 1812 als een veldhospitaal en een militair depot. Nadien werd de kerk gerestaureerd om als kerk voor begrafenissen op de aangrenzende begraafplaats te kunnen dienen. Het klooster werd als ziekenhuis in gebruik genomen, het eerste seculiere ziekenhuis van de stad.

Na de Tweede Wereldoorlog werd het kerkgebouw in 1948 gesloten. In eerste instantie werd het gebouw gebruikt om er groente en fruit in op te slaan, daarna voor de opslag van decors van het Opera en Ballet Theater.

Alleen de kerk werd in 1992 teruggegeven aan de Dominicanen, maar in het klooster is nog altijd een ziekenhuis gehuisvest, het tegenwoordig katholieke Sint-Jacobushospitaal.

Externe link
  Website van de kerk

Kerkgebouw in Vilnius
Rooms-katholiek kerkgebouw in Litouwen


Loon, a subsidiary of Google's parent company Alphabet, will deliver a network operating system design that Telesat can use to support its global Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellation. The design will adapt and expand on Loon's cloud-based, temporospatial Software-Defined Network (SDN) platform that Loon uses today to deliver mobile data services over its fleet of stratospheric balloons.
Under the agreement, Loon will adapt its SDN platform design to enable Telesat's LEO constellation to help consistently deliver a fiber-like broadband experience on a global basis to both fixed and mobile terminals. The Loon SDN will be specifically customized for Telesat's use.
"Loon's cloud-based SDN platform is already managing services over the Loon high-altitude balloon network and Telesat is pleased to be working with Loon to have Loon optimize their solution for Telesat's LEO constellation," said Telesat Vice President (VP) Erwin Hudson. "Loon has unique experience developing sophisticated network management software that assures delivery of reliable broadband services over highly dynamic networks that undergo constant change. The addition of Loon brings an entirely new set of capabilities to the world-class supplier team Telesat has built for our LEO program – capabilities that will give Telesat a powerful competitive advantage in our global broadband service offerings."


Day to day, the news can be confusing, messy, almost overwhelming. Sometimes, it can be hard to make sense of.
That's one reason why, two years ago, we created an editorial board and began publishing opinion pieces on community issues that reflect the position of WCPO as a news organization. Our goal is to help our audience and the broader community make sense of the news, lead the public conversation and find solutions to the problems that perplex us.
We do this as independent, nonpartisan, professional journalists.
You can scroll to the bottom to see who's on the WCPO editorial board.
Our business is local news. We have a team of reporters, editors and producers who deliver local news over 43 hours of television every week, a website that is updated all day long and social media feeds that literally can reach hundreds of thousands.
With our voice comes an obligation to speak out for our community, to focus on our thorniest problems and to advocate for solutions.
We believe we owe our audience sense-making and perspective. That's what our editorials are all about, and that's what we'll keep doing this year.
What will we pay attention to?
Our community, like our nation, faces big problems. A drug epidemic, too many kids and parents stuck in poverty, racial animosity, a lack of upward mobility.
Our region will have debates over how best to use our limited resources in ways that will benefit the region. A new stadium? A better bus system? New roads? More cops?
WCPO takes the extra steps to be an advocate for the community and each other.
Last year, as part of that mission, we continued a long-term project advocating for a more robust response to the heroin epidemic.
READ: Heroin: How Do We Respond?
We launched an effort to shine light on neglected neighborhoods in Cincinnati and beyond and speak up for their needs.
We continued our commitment to spotlight the high poverty rate here and to call out what works in reducing that.
These deep-seated problems aren't solved quickly, and we'll keep following them in 2018.
But the year ahead will bring new demands.
Our core city, Cincinnati, has a new council, with three new faces. We'll watch how these leaders approach the city's challenges – including a budget deficit, a shortage of affordable housing, lifting up all the city's neighborhoods – and we'll try to cut through the messy debates to seek answers.
This is an election year for all the U.S. House members, the Ohio governorship and one Senate seat from Ohio. We don't plan to make endorsements in these races, but we will call out political nonsense when we see it and cut through grandstanding and half-truths that only confuse the issues.
We'll uphold our community's standards for civility.
We are independent. We don't view issues as Republicans or Democrats, from the left or the right. We take a common-sense approach, weighing each issue on its own.
We'll speak for regular people, those who go to work every day, who are raising families in a fast-moving world. We speak for the vulnerable, those who have no voice or connection to power, single parents, the poor, the addicted, minorities.
But it's not just about our opinions. We want to know what you, our audience, is thinking, and give you ways to share your thoughts. Last year, we started features called What You Said and Feedback Friday as vehicles for your opinions. We'll keep doing those. We regularly publish columns from community contributor s. We'll keep doing that.
You can contact our opinion editor, David Holthaus, at david.holthaus@wcpo.com, with an idea for an editorial or a column. You can share your opinions on our Facebook page and our Twitter feed.
We want to hear from you. With you, we can lead the public conversation and work for a better, more just community.


All of us here are leaders in some shape or form and we are growing up amongst each other so our actions matter. You are symbols in some way. You can be symbols of love and hope or symbols of hate and intolerance.
So I want you all to be aware of the actions you take because what we all decide to do in public and private has the potential to influence policies today and tomorrow. Let's make sure those actions are celebrating differences, finding common ground and being a voice for the voiceless.
Are you ready to change the world? Use your DIFFERENCE to make a DIFFERENCE.
Ok so here is the secret to success.
Goals that are simultaneously big, scary and exciting to you so you remain focused and never complacent.
Your goal should be big enough that you need to grow into the person that can achieve them.
After categorizing these goals, dissect them and see what skills you need to develop in order to achieve them.
These will inform you with the instructions you need to then break those goals down into actionable monthly, weekly and daily activities.
Stay relentless with these actions. So much so that you schedule these actions as priorities on your calendar.
These actions are your building blocks, your foundations, your fundamentals and they need to be practiced daily.
These daily repetitions lead to mastery.
You're saying to me now, this isn't a secret! I know this. Everyone says that.
You're not wrong but what you're missing is that few people have the patience to do the same thing over and over again.
It becomes monotonous or boring to them.
They want something new and in the process they miss out on building out the future they set for themselves in the beginning.
They miss out on opportunities to grow because success is dressed in overalls and looks like the hard work they don't want to replicate.
If you can see these challenges as learning opportunities, then something AMAZING happens.
It's about weathering the storm to get to the rainbow.
Taking the bruises to get to the finish line.
Believing in yourself when no one does.
And seeing the clearly defined goals you set for yourself every day you wake up until you achieve them so that you can then set even loftier goals.
Set clearly defined goals, grow into the person that can achieve those goals by repeating daily rituals, learn from every experience then rinse, repeat and do it again.
ASU A.K.A Always Show Up OR Always Step Up OR Always Stand Up!!!
So now that you know the secret recipe, what will you do?
When I started this blog about three years ago, my goal was to change the way a whole generation of people thought about the world. I wanted to show them that the world deserved to be explored and that there is great importance in learning how to communicate across cultures. Today, my goal hasn't changed. It's only intensified, hence my mission statement, "use your difference to make a difference".
However, my path hasn't been a straight line. It has been filled with ups and downs, It has been filled with many "almosts", even a near-death experience but I wouldn't have it any other way. I recently got on Gregg Clunis's podcast to discuss my path in a three part interview.
You can catch the interview here.
Bottom line, as you start this week, I want you to remember that it's never too late to pursue your dreams and that if you want to achieve your dreams be willing to do the work. As E.E. Cummings said, "it takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."
Have the most productive week ever and in case you need some inspiration, check this out.


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The Arlumer Subsector is defended by 7th Fleet.
Arlumer, subsector A of Ilelish has 36 worlds, of which 25 have native gas giants. The estimated population for the subsector is 209 billion sophonts (not necessarily humans). There are eight High population (Hi) worlds, six Moderate population (Ph) worlds, 14 Non-industrial (Ni) worlds, four Low population (Lo) worlds, and no Barren (Ba) worlds. There are five Agricultural (Ag) worlds versus five Pre-Agricultural (Pa) worlds, and six Non-Agricultural (Na) worlds. There is one Rich (Ri) world versus six Industrial (In) worlds. There are no Asteroid (As) belts, one Desert (De) world, three Garden (Ga) worlds, no Ice-capped (Ic) worlds, seven Poor (Po) worlds, four Vacuum (Va) worlds, and two Water (Wa) or Ocean (Oc) worlds. There are seven Naval bases in the subsector, one Scout base, and no Way stations. The Imperial nobility includes 36 Knights, nine Baronets, six Barons, six Marquises, six Viscounts, eight Counts, three Dukes, and one Subsector Duke. The highest population worlds are Tylio (Ilelish 0307) and Ansha (Ilelish 0403). The highest tech level is F at Arlumer (Ilelish 0510). The average technology level is 11 (with most between 8 and 13).
The Third Imperium, Domain of Ilelish in Arlumer has jurisdiction over all of the worlds. The subsector capital is Arlumer (Ilelish 0510).
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When you donate a conservation easement, you still retain ownership of the land and enjoy many of the current uses such as agriculture, forestry, residential and recreational. What is generally given up is the right to subdivide the land or develop it for commercial and industrial uses.
Conservation easements are flexible and vary widely. An agreement to protect rare wildlife habitat might prohibit any development while a CE on a farm may encourage continued farming. An agreement may apply to just a portion of the property. Public access is not required.
Future owners are bound by a conservation easement's terms forever. The land trust that accepts the CE is responsible for monitoring the agreement and enforcing its terms.
A CE must meet one of four conservation purposes to qualify for a federal tax deduction.
The more significant the land, the more it adds to the public good, the more likely it is that it will qualify for the deduction.
What are the benefits from a CE?
The primary reason landowners place a CE on their land is to ensure that the character of their land will be available for future generations. There may be substantial tax benefits for the donation of a conservation easement.
Landowners are allowed to deduct 50% of their adjusted gross income while using up the CE deduction over 16 years. Qualified farmers, and ranchers can deduct 100% of their taxable income taxable income over this period.
Since a CE affects a property's fair market value, the easement must be taken into consideration for assessment and taxation. Unimproved property subject to an easement is classified as agricultural real property subject to satisfactory proof to the assessor.
What is the process for donating a conservation easement?
Having talked this over with family or partners, call Upper Savannah Land Trust to begin the discussion.
Upper Savannah Land Trust representatives will perform a limited inspection of the land and find out what activities you want to allow.
Landowner should consult with attorney and accountant or tax advisor.
If a tax deduction is sought, IRS regulations require an appraisal of the value of the land.
A survey ma or may not be needed; a title opinion from your attorney or title insurance is required.
A baseline assessment of the property will be made to document the state of the land at the time of the gift. Yearly monitoring of the easement by the land trust will compare the baseline with current conditions.
It is customary for the landowner to make a donation to the stewardship endowment of the trust to help defray monitoring and enforcement costs.
After the CE is in place, what happens?
You and successive owners continue to own, manage and pay taxes on the land. You can continue the uses of the land that you agreed to retain. Your property is still private property. You can pass the property on to the next generation or sell it, content in the knowledge that the conservation values you hold dear will be permanently protected.
The information listed is not tax and/or legal advice. Landowners should seek legal and tax counsel before any donation.


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Pope Francis says "The cross was an instrument of death, yet it became the source of life...it revealed to us the beauty of God's love." FULL TEXT + Video at Divine Liturgy in Slovakia
On Tuesday in Prešov, Pope Francis presided at the Divine Liturgy (Holy Mass) for the Feast of the Universal Exaltation of the Holy Cross. The liturgy, in the Byzantine Rite, was celebrated by the Metropolitan Archbishop of Prešov, Ján Babjak, and concelebrated by numerous Greek and Latin Catholic prelates. (FULL TEXT Homily and Mass Video below)
According to a census carried out in 2011, the number of Catholics in the Slovak Republic was 65.8%. Of that number, 62% belonged to the Roman Catholic Church and 3.8% to the Greek Catholic Church. Out of a total population of 5,397,036 inhabitants, around 206,871 people in the country belong to the Slovak Greek Catholic Church, which celebrates the Byzantine Greek Rite.
APOSTOLIC JOURNEY OF HIS HOLINESS FRANCIS
TO BUDAPEST, ON THE OCCASION OF THE CONCLUDING HOLY MASS
OF THE 52nd INTERNATIONAL EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS,
AND TO SLOVAKIA
(12-15 SEPTEMBER 2021)
BYZANTINE DIVINE LITURGY OF SAINT JOHN CHRYSOSTOM
PRESIDED BY THE HOLY FATHER
Square of the Mestská športová hala (Prešov)
"We proclaim Christ crucified… the power of God and the wisdom of God." So Saint Paul tells us, but he does not hide the fact that, in terms of human wisdom, the cross appears as something completely different: it is "scandal", "foolishness" (1 Cor 1:23-24).
The cross was an instrument of death, yet it became the source of life. It was a horrendous sight, yet it revealed to us the beauty of God's love. That is why, in today's feast, the people of God venerate the cross and the Liturgy celebrates it. The Gospel of John takes us by the hand and helps us to enter into this mystery. The evangelist himself was present, standing at the foot of the cross. Gazing upon Jesus, hanging lifeless there, he writes: "He who saw this has testified" to it (Jn 19:35). Saint John both sees and testifies.
First comes seeing. What did John see as he stood beneath the cross? Surely, what others saw: Jesus, an innocent and good man, brutally put to death between two criminals. Yet another of the many injustices, the many bloody sacrifices that do not change history, the latest proof that the course of events in our world does not change: the good are cast aside and the wicked prevail and prosper. In the eyes of the world, the cross represents failure. We too can risk not going beyond this first, superficial gaze; we too can fail to accept the message of the cross, that God saves us by allowing all the evil of our world to be unleashed upon himself. We can fail to accept, except perhaps in words, a weak and crucified God, and prefer instead to dream of a God who is powerful and triumphant. This is a great temptation. How often do we long for a Christianity of winners, a triumphalist Christianity that is important and influential, that receives glory and honour? Yet a Christianity without a cross is a worldly Christianity, and shows itself to be sterile.
Saint John, on the other hand, saw in the cross the presence and work of God. In the crucified Christ, he recognized the glory of God. He saw that despite appearances, Jesus is not a loser, but God, who willingly offers himself for every man and woman. Why did he do this? He could have saved his life, he could have kept his distance from the misery and brutality of human history. Instead he chose to enter into that history, to immerse himself in it. That is why he chose the most difficult way possible: the cross. So that no one on earth should ever be so desperate as not to be able to find him, even there, in the midst of anguish, darkness, abandonment, the scandal of his or her own misery and mistakes. There, to the very place we think God cannot be present, there he came. To save those who despair, he himself chose to taste despair; taking upon himself our most bitter anguish, he cried out from the cross: "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" (Mt 27:46; Ps 22:1). A cry that saves. It saves because God took upon himself even the experience of our abandonment. And now, with him, we are no longer alone, ever.
How do we learn to see glory in the cross? Some of the saints teach us that the cross is like a book: in order to know it, we have to open it and read it. It is not enough to buy a book, take a look at it and put it on a shelf in our home. The same is true for the cross: it is painted or carved everywhere in our churches. Crucifixes are found all around us: on necks, in homes, in cars, in pockets. What good is this, unless we stop to look at the crucified Jesus and open our hearts to him, unless we let ourselves be struck by the wounds he bears for our sake, unless our hearts swell with emotion and we weep before the God wounded for love of us. Unless we do that, the cross remains an unread book whose title and author we know, without its having any impact on our lives. Let us not reduce the cross to an object of devotion, much less to a political symbol, to a sign of religious and social status.
Contemplating the crucified Lord brings us to a second step: bearing witness. If we fix our gaze on Jesus, his face comes to be reflected on our own: his features become ours, the love of Christ wins us over and transforms us. Here I think of the martyrs who in this nation bore witness to the love of Christ in troubled times, when everything counselled silence, taking cover, not professing the faith. Yet they could not – could not – help but testify. How many generous persons suffered and died here in Slovakia for the name of Christ! Theirs was a witness borne out of love of him whom they had long contemplated. To the point that they resembled him even in their death.
I think too of our own time, in which there is no lack of opportunities for bearing witness. Here, thank God, we do not find those who persecute Christians, as in too many other parts of the world. Yet our witness can be weakened by worldliness and mediocrity. The cross demands instead a limpid testimony. For the cross is not a flag to wave, but the pure source of a new way of living. Which? That of the Gospel, that of the Beatitudes. A witness who bears the cross in his or her heart, and not only on his or her neck, views no one as an enemy, but everyone as a brother or sister for whom Jesus gave his life. A witness of the cross does not dwell on the wrongs of the past or keep lamenting the present. Witnesses of the cross do not employ the ways of deception and worldly pretension: they do not want to impose themselves and their own, but to give their lives for others. They seek not their own advantage, in order to be seen as devout: this would be a religion of hypocrisy, not a witness to the crucified Lord. Witnesses of the cross have but one strategy, that of the Master: humble love. They do not look for triumphs here below, because they know that the love of Christ bears fruit in the events of daily life, renewing all things from within, like the seed that falls to the ground, dies and produces much fruit.
Dear brothers and sisters, you have seen such witnesses. Cherish the memory of those persons who nurtured you and helped you to grow in the faith. Lowly and simple persons who gave their lives in love to the end. These are our heroes, the heroes of everyday existence, and their lives changed history. Witnesses generate other witnesses, because they are givers of life. That is how the faith is spread: not with the worldly power but with the wisdom of the cross; not with structures but with witness. Today the Lord, from the eloquent silence of the cross, is asking all of us, as he is asking you, and you, and you, and me: Do you want to be my witness?
Standing with John at Calvary was the Holy Mother of God. No one saw the book of the cross so wide open as she did, and she testified to it with humble love. Through her intercession, let us ask for the grace to turn the eyes of our heart to the crucified Jesus. Then our faith will be able to flower in its fullness; then our witness will bear its full fruit.


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Category: Stateless persons
From birth Leonid lived in Ukraine. In the 1990s, he lost the passport of a citizen of the USSR, the only passport he had at that moment. Due to lack of need, the man never thought about renewing the documents and getting a Ukrainian passport in time.
But one day everything changed. In 2019 Leonid was given a disappointing diagnosis and required urgent surgery and treatment, which are impossible without documents. The man applied to the migration service for a passport of a citizen of Ukraine. In result of the inspection, he was denied on the grounds that his citizenship could not be established. Leonid was advised to apply to the Right to Protection Charitable Foundation for legal assistance.
The lawyer of our Foundation made several inquiries, prepared and submitted an application to the court to establish the fact of Leonid's residence on the territory of Ukraine from the period of independence. As a result of a difficult trial, the fact of residence was established by the decision of the Leninsky District Court of Kharkiv. In September 2020. After all the necessary documents were collected the procedure for Leonid's citizenship of Ukraine was started.
On 1-st of December, Leonid received a certificate of registration as a citizen of Ukraine. Immediately then, he submitted an application to obtain a passport of a citizen of Ukraine to the Kholodnohirsky Regional Department of the State Migration Service of Ukraine (SMSU) in Kharkiv region.
Thanks to the cooperation of the SMSU with the Right to Protection CF, as well as the great job done by the Migration Service staff, Leonid came into the New Year 2021 in a new status of a citizen of Ukraine. Now he can finally receive proper treatment, open his own bank account, exercise his civil and political rights, same as everyone else.
As Leonid said, this was the best New Year gift for him:
«For a moment I felt completely desperate. I was prepared to live the rest of my life without a passport, although in reality I dreamed of receiving it one day. New Year is a magic time when all dreams come true! I believed in a miracle again!»
Recently we told the story of our another beneficiary Pavlo who was in a similar situation and had to live 27 years without a legal identity.
Due to the life circumstances Oleksandr became homeless. He lost his family, hope for the future and his overall health condition worsened much. The only thing he had is an old Soviet passport, which is completely useless today as there is no such country on the political map of the world.
For a long time Oleksandr has been living in a warehouse. In addition, the man had vision problems.
Oleksandr contacted us for help in order to update his documents and obtain a passport of a citizen of Ukraine, which he never had. With the help of a lawyer from the Severodonetsk office of the Right to Protection Charitable Foundation, the necessary documents were collected. The department of the State Migration Service of Ukraine registered Oleksandr as a citizen of Ukraine even without the need of a court procedure.
After receiving his passport, Oleksandr was able to settle in a dormitory and receive much needed medical care. These holidays a man will finally meet in the warm.
In December 2020, the dream of our beneficiary Mr. Mykhailo finally came true – he received a passport of a citizen of Ukraine.
For 2.5 years, lawyers of the Right to Protection Charitable Foundation worked actively to help Mykhailo obtain a passport. The process was quite a complicated one: court hearings, legal inquiries, cooperation with the State Migration Service of Ukraine and the Registry Office. But the end result was totally worth it!
Mykhailo was born in the Belarus SSR, where he received a passport at the age of 16. In 1988, the man permanently moved to the Ukrainian SSR to the city of Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, where he lived and worked all his life.
Although our beneficiary was employed, the fact of permanent residence on the territory of Ukraine as of August 24, 1991 was difficult to prove in court. The SMSU representative insisted on questioning at least one witness who could confirm the man's residence in Ukraine. Fortunately, such a witness was found and agreed to come to court. In result, the court established legal fact of Mykhailo's residence on the territory of Ukraine as of August 24, 1991.
But then another problem emerged – COVID-19 quarantine. Due to the restrictions imposed, Mykhailo could not obtain proof of citizenship for 9 months: in early 2020, the man applied to the Bakhmut City Department of the State Migration Service for a certificate of registration as a citizen of Ukraine and received it only in September.
With the certificate, the man was finally able to apply to the SMSU for a passport, but faced difficulties due to the lack of appropriate conditions for people with disabilities. On December 2 a monitor of the Right to Protection Charitable Foundation accompanied Mykhailo and helped him to receive a passport.
It is probably unnecessary to remind that a passport is the most important document in the life of any person. But for Mr. Mykhailo that's a vital document. Without a passport, he could not receive medical help and a pension, despite the fact of having 20 years of work experience. Finally, Mr. Mykhailo will feel what it is like to be a citizen and have equal opportunities and rights as all the other people!
Maria comes from Donetsk. She lived there all her life, but all this time she was a stateless person, legally nonexistent all this time.
The woman contacted the Kurakhiv office of the Right to Protection Charitable Foundation which is located in the Donetsk region. Immediately after that, she began actively collecting evidence to prove her residence in Ukraine as of 1991.
Although the court upheld the claim, the position of the State Migration Service of Ukraine has not changed and they are refusing to comply with the court's decision.
We suggest you read this story from the own words of the lawyer of the Right to Protection Charitable Foundation Ruslan Bereteli, which he posted on his Facebook page:
[English translation below]:
Sometimes it seems that very little can surprise me in my work. But no, when I listen to people's stories I can't understand how they overcome such obstacles in their lives, especially those that are artificially built by the state.
One winter morning in 2020, Maria came to the office. "Simply María" – I thought. She sat on a chair and I listened to her story for almost an hour. Ms. Maria told how she grew up in Donetsk, how she went to school, worked, found a husband, one after another gave birth to two beautiful children and all this time she WASN'T, SHE DIDN'T EXIST.
Yes, you heard it right: SHE. DIDN'T. EXIST.
She was, but she did not exist in the legal field of the state, Maria had no rights. She gave birth to children who received no birth certificates. She couldn't buy a plane or train ticket. She felt like a nobody.
I can't remember such a motivated client in my work practice at our Kurakhiv field office yet. Every instruction on gathering evidence to prove residence in Ukraine as of 1991 was followed almost instantly. Relatives in Donetsk overturned both the school where Maria studied and the hospital where she was registered since her childhood, as well as the statement from the company where Maria's mother worked. They found the student's personal file, medical card, other certificates and much more…
Despite the numerous evidence which prove that Maria lived in Ukraine as of 1991, representative of the State Migration Service of Ukraine was against the establishment of this fact.
The lawyer of the Right to Protection Charitable Foundation insisted on the position of our beneficiary in court. Despite the contrary position of the SMSU representative, the court granted the application. Cheers, victory, salute…
Though … "didn't happen as should happen" – says Ukrainian wisdom.
As of now, the Migration Service department refuses to comply with the court's decision, their employees do not provide the application form, demands the provision of some far-fetched evidence, offers to wait for the head, etc.
And Maria is still fighting to receive citizenship. She is looking right into the eyes of the state, which does not want to notice her.
[Original FB post in Ukrainian]:
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Posted by Беретели Руслан on Tuesday, December 22, 2020
The Right to Protection Charitable Foundation presents a report on the situation with the rights of refugees, asylum seekers and stateless persons. Despite the state's efforts, some challenges remain unresolved for many years and are the subject of a review of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) at the UN Human Rights Council.
The Report "Ensuring the Rights of Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Stateless Persons" is an alternative view of non-governmental organizations on the state of implementation of recommendations received and supported by Ukraine in the framework of the Universal Periodic Review. The report was developed by the Right to Protection Charitable Foundation NEEKA Ukraine, The Tenth of April / Desyate Kvitnya NGO, Rokada Charitable Foundation, Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion (ISI) and with expert support from European Network on Statelessness.
«The preparation of the national interim report on the state of implementation of UPR recommendations is a good initiative to launch a dialogue between the public and the Government to address serious challenges and improve the rights of vulnerable groups,»
– said Ksenia Karagyaur, the Legal Analyst at Right to Protection CF.
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The problem of statelessness can happen to anyone. This can be the result of fire, any natural disaster or even fraud. And someone may fall victim to a bureaucratic mistake made in time of the fall of Soviet power.
The story of the Right to Protection Charitable Foundation beneficiary Ms. Olena began many years ago. The woman was born and lived in Ukraine for her whole life. Back in the days she had a Soviet passport.
For some time Olena was not registered at any place of residence. When a woman worked at the factory in Kharkiv, she did not have her own flat or house, as well as was not able to get a dormitory room, thus having no ability to receive registration of the place of residence. It was the year 1991. By the law, a person who officially resided in Ukraine as of August 24 and / or November 13, 1991 is considered a citizen. Despite the fact that Olena was officially employed, she could not prove her citizenship for many years.
Employees of the State Migration Service of Ukraine advised the women to apply for help to the office of the Right to Protection Charitable Foundation in Kharkiv. A number of lawyer's requests were made and a statement to the court was prepared. During the proceedings, our lawyer represented Ms. Olena's interests in the courts and proved that she had resided in Ukraine as of August 24, 1991.
Due to the high competence and efficiency of the management of the Kharkiv district department of the State Customs Service of Ukraine in Kharkiv region in the person of Dmytro Kolesnyk and Lilia Myshchenko, the procedure of establishing Olena's identity was carried out, and all the necessary documents for passport issuance were collected and prepared.
«Finally, I feel like a full-fledged person, a citizen of my country, where I live from my birth. I am so happy!»,
– Says Olena, without hiding her tears of joy, after receiving the Ukrainian passport she had been dreaming of for almost 30 years.
Now, Olena finally can fully exercise all the rights granted by the Constitution and the Laws of Ukraine. Now she can officially work, receive medical and social assistance, buy property and real estate, land, as well as to enjoy full belonging to the citizenship of her Homeland.
Stateless persons are the people who are not recognized by any country in the whole world. However, we should bear in mind the distinction between officially recognized stateless persons and those who are not registered at all. Undocumented stateless persons face serious problems: they cannot officially work, enter into contracts, buy property, or just to live a usual life, like everybody else.
In 2020, several important steps in this case were taken by the government of Ukraine, one of which was the adoption of the Law of Ukraine «On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of Ukraine Concerning Recognition as a Stateless Person». Unfortunately, despite the fact that the law is already in force, it is still in the process of being enacted. The second problem is with the draft law «On Administrative Procedure», which also regulates the issue: it needs to be substantially finalized before preparation for the second reading.
We invite You to watch the video developed and created by the Right to Protection Charitable Foundation with the support of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), where all the key moments on the recognition as a stateless person in Ukraine are mentioned.
Particularly, the video provides answers to the following questions:
Who the procedure concerns;
Where to apply for the recognition as stateless person;
What the determination procedure will be like;
What are the grounds for denial for a recognition;
Which documents will confirm the status of the person;
Rights and opportunities of a stateless person;
(IN UKRAINIAN) Stateless persons in Ukraine in 2020: what will change after the enactment of legislative amendments
The contents of this material are the sole responsibility of the Right to Protection Charitable Foundation and cannot be used to reflect the views of UNHCR.
On November 26, 2020, the Right to Protection Charitable Foundation, which is the executive partner of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Ukraine (UNHCR), hosted an online School of Migration Law.
Law students from different cities and different universities of Ukraine had the opportunity to join the event, during which they were introduced to such concepts as "asylum seeker", "recognized refugee", "person in need of additional protection in Ukraine" and "stateless person", and also received information on the legislation of Ukraine, which regulates the status of such persons in Ukraine.
Participants of the Migration School also had the opportunity to communicate with representatives of asylum seekers, refugees and stateless persons in Ukraine, hear their personal stories, as well as learn about problems and difficulties they face often .
«The main purpose of the Migration School was to provide students with theoretical and practical information on the protection of the rights of recognized refugees, asylum seekers and stateless persons in Ukraine, as well as to acquaint them with the practice of asylum seekers in the ECtHR. All participants were active and asked lots of questions to our lawyers, as well as wished the Migration School to be held more often»,
– summed up Oleksandra Lukyanenko, the lawyer at Right to Protection CF
Our Foundation expresses sincere gratitude to all the students who joined the online School!
Whole 3-hour video of the event is available for viewing
"I still can't believe it's all real,"
– our beneficiary said when she finally received her dream birthday present – a passport of a citizen of Ukraine.
Liuba is 37 years old. She was born and raised in a large family of Roma ethnicity. The family lived in hardships and often moved from place to place, later settling in a permanent residence in the Novovodolazk district of Kharkiv region. When Lyuba grew up, she was married in accordance with Roma tradition. The woman became stateless because her parents did not deal with the documents issue. Liuba gave birth to five children, but the two older ones were taken away from the woman due to lack of documents.
The woman's plans for life changed dramatically when her parents' house suddenly burned down. Unable to withstand such a blow, Liuba's father died of a heart attack. She was forced to return to the Kharkiv region to be able to support her mother. All this time Liuba tried to get a passport and repeatedly applied to the local "passport office", but to no success.
Our colleagues learned about Liuba's story from the partner organization Depol Ukraine Charity Foundation. Their representatives appealed to the Kharkiv office of the Right to Protection Charitable Foundation to help the woman obtain a passport.
Our Foundation lawyer made a number of inquiries to the state institutions to gather all the necessary documents to confirm Liuba's citizenship. Under the current law, a woman's nationality depended on the place of residence of her and / or her parents. In order to prove the fact that the family lived in their native village in 1991, a request was made to the village council.
After that, the citizenship of Liuba's parents was confirmed and it was agreed with the leadership of the State Migration Service of Ukraine in the Kharkiv region to prove the personality of Liuba with the help of only one witness. And it was the woman's sister Raya, who came from the Kirovohrad region with a 3 month-old child to help her sister with citizenship. However, discrepancies were found in the sisters' birth certificates, which the lawyer had to correct. Thanks to the help of employees of the Kholodnohirs'kyy district of the State Register of the Acts of a Civil Status in Kharkiv the documents were processed as soon as possible.
In the end, the State Migration Service of Ukraine in Kharkiv region issued a final positive decision on the identification of Liuba, as well as issued the passport of a citizen of Ukraine for the first time in her life. In fact, on the eve of her 38th birthday, Liuba's most cherished dream – to receive the passport finally came true.
Now it's time for the Liuba's children and her youngest sister (in whose case the Kharkiv Court of Appeal issued a positive decision) to receive the documents. But that's a whole 'nother story.
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OPINION: Marijuana Legalization & Economic Restorative Justice for Black Communities Devastated by Systemic Racism by Maria Granville
February 1, 2021 Editor Editorial/Op-Ed
(HARLEM) – Believe it or not, New York's thriving lottery system, which raised nearly $10.2 billion in revenue for the state last year, was invented by a Black man, Casper Holstein.
Known as "The Bolito King," Holstein, an entrepreneur and philanthropist, is considered the father of the so-called "numbers." In the early 1920s, he devised a way to randomly select winning numbers using US Customs House receipts and the Stock Exchange's daily volume – without the prospect of rigged results.
The numbers game went on to employ over 100,000 people across the five boroughs, finance local businesses, and create generational wealth.
In 1980, New York State decided to legalize the $800 million to $1.5 billion dollar business. Dead set on cutting the current operators out of the business, officials rejected solutions that would have legitimized their businesses and saved their jobs. Instead, they opted to deride them as tax evaders and criminals while eliminating their livelihoods.
New York State is again eyeing a thriving illegal market, built predominantly by Black people who have borne the brunt of unequal enforcement while making a living for themselves, their families, and their communities. The racial disparities of arrests for marijuana offenses in New York City are staggering – in the second Quarter of 2020, 56 percent of people arrested for marijuana infractions are Black. Six percent are white.
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Soul Militia (known until 2002 as 2XL) is an Estonian hip-hop act, internationally most notable for winning the Eurovision Song Contest 2001 as backing singers for Tanel Padar and Dave Benton, with the song "Everybody", which they had also covered on their own in concert. The group consists of Lauri Pihlap ("Lowry"), Sergei Morgun ("Semy") and Kaido Põldma ("Craig"). A fourth member, Indrek Soom ("Ince"), left the group in 2004. 2XL was founded by Morgun and Soom in 1997. They later participated in the 2007 Estonian Eurovision preselection with a song titled "My Place".

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Two arrested in e. Idaho after pursuit
Bonneville County Sheriff's Office Deputies have arrested two people accused of possessing drugs and fleeing officers.
On February 9th, at approximately 4:37 p.m., a Bonneville County Sheriff's Office Deputy attempted to stop a maroon Lincoln Town Car for a traffic violation on I-15 south near milepost 116.
The vehicle failed to stop and the deputy became worried that the vehicle's hood, which was attached with a bungee cord, could obstruct the driver's view.
The deputy attempted to get in front of the vehicle when the suspect rammed the back of the deputy's police cruiser.
The deputy was able to force the vehicle into a snow covered median where it stopped.
The driver fled the car on foot and was quickly apprehended by deputies while the passenger remained in the vehicle.
The driver, identified as Christopher W. Hudson, 33, of Idaho Falls was found to have active felony warrants for his arrest from the Idaho Department of Corrections.
The passenger, identified as Bryan J. Beck, 26, of Idaho Falls had an active warrant out of Bonneville County for Probation Violation.
Deputies found drug paraphernalia and four ounces of methamphetamine inside the vehicle.
Both men were booked into the Bonneville County Jail for their warrants and felony drug trafficking.
Hudson was charged with aggravated battery for ramming the police cruiser.