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A justice's blind eye to the truth
John Paul Stevens's argument that capital punishment is racist is contradicted by facts
Globe Columnist / December 5, 2010
I'M NOT a regular reader of The New York Review of Books, but I wasn't going to miss newly-retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens's essay on capital punishment in the latest issue. Last Sunday, The New York Times spotlighted the Stevens article as a "remarkable'' piece of writing that finally settled a "legal mystery'' — namely, why Stevens had changed his original view on the death penalty, and announced in 2008 that he now considered it to be unconstitutional.
Whether Stevens's metamorphosis was really such a "mystery'' is debatable. A moderate Republican when he was appointed by President Ford in 1976, Stevens had long since migrated to the other side of the ideological divide. By 1994, to quote The New Yorker's legal-affairs writer Jeffrey Toobin, Stevens had "become the undisputed leader of the resistance against the conservatives on the Court.'' Capital punishment was just one of many issues — racial preferences, gay rights, free speech, church/state separation — on which Stevens came to champion staunchly liberal positions. Well before the 2008 concurrence in which he proclaimed the death penalty to be a violation of the Eighth Amendment in all cases, his growing opposition to executions was evident.
That opposition is restated in Stevens's new essay, a mostly positive review of a new book, "Peculiar Institution: America's Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition'' by David Garland, a professor of law and sociology at New York University. In his study, Garland cites the opinion of "many commentators'' who "view contemporary capital punishment as a continuation of the nation's history of racial violence and lynching'' — an inflammatory view with which Stevens appears to concur. The former justice echoes that language in writing about the 1987 case of McCleskey v. Kemp, a 5-to-4 decision in which the court upheld a murder conviction and death penalty even though academic research proved that sentences of death were more common when the murder victim was white.
"That the murder of black victims is treated as less culpable than the murder of white victims,'' Stevens writes bitterly, "provides a haunting reminder of once-prevalent Southern lynchings.''
It is a passionately held article of faith among death-penalty opponents that capital punishment is racially unjust. But the facts stubbornly say otherwise. Ever since the Supreme Court compelled the states to rewrite their death penalty statutes in the 1970s, white murderers have been more likely than black murderers to be sentenced to death, and more likely to actually be executed. Though blacks commit approximately half of all murders in the United States, they accounted for only 390, or 35 percent, of the 1,136 murderers executed from 1977 through 2008. (Whites made up 57 percent; the rest were Hispanic, Asian, or American Indian.)
The race-of-the-victim claim that so appalls Stevens collapses under scrutiny. The Washington Post's Charles Lane — an admirer of Stevens, as it happens — shows why in a new book of his own. Because the vast majority of the murderers who kill blacks are black themselves, he writes in "Stay of Execution: Saving the Death Penalty from Itself,'' the fact that the murder of a black victim is less likely to be punished with death is another way of saying that fewer blacks are put to death by the state. That reflects not racism, but racial progress.
It isn't because prosecutors place a lower value on black life that they are more reluctant to seek the death penalty for black-on-black homicide, Lane explains. It is because prosecutors don't press for a punishment of death unless they think the jury can be convinced to support it. And in the largely black communities where most black-on-black crime is committed, "persuading a jury to sentence a defendant to death is relatively difficult.'' Similarly, "in jurisdictions where elected prosecutors must appeal to black voters, prosecutors are that much less likely to support capital punishment.''
In short, says Lane, far from harking back to the awful era when legally powerless black Americans were murdered by lynch mobs, the race-of-the-victim disparity today shows how blacks have been empowered. Before the Civil Rights revolution, most blacks couldn't vote or serve on juries. "Now that they do, they appear to be using this power to limit capital punishment in the cases closest to them.''
Reasonable people have disagreed about the death penalty for a long time, but there is nothing reasonable about smearing the modern capital-justice system as inherently racist. Stevens changed his mind on the death penalty, but most Americans continue to regard it as a legitimate tool of justice. To imply that there is a whiff of the lynch mob in their view may make a good story for the Sunday paper. It doesn't make a convincing argument.
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Filipp Isayevich Goloshchyokin () (born Shaya Itsikovich) () ( – October 28, 1941) was a Bolshevik revolutionary, Soviet politician, and party functionary, principally remembered for his collectivization in the Kazakh Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic which subsequently caused the Kazakh famine of 1932–1933, in which 1.5 million people died, of whom 1.3 million were ethnic Kazakhs. An estimated 38 to 42 percent of all Kazakhs died, the highest percentage of any ethnic group killed by the Soviet famine of 1932–1933. Other sources state that as many as 2.0 to 2.3 million died.

A member of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party since 1903 and a founding member of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), he was a participant in the Revolution of 1905 and the October Revolution. During the Russian Civil War he was a major figure in the establishment of Soviet power in the Urals and Siberia, acting as the People's Commissar for Military Affairs for the Ural Region, and a member of the Central Executive Committee of the Ural Regional Council of Workers', Peasants', and Soldiers' Deputies, more commonly known as the Ural Soviet, as well as a member of the Perm Central Executive Committee. Subsequently, Chairman of the Samara Provincial Executive Committee.

Following the establishment of the Soviet Union in 1922, in his capacity as a senior figure in the Communist Party, he was elected as a Full and Candidate Member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1934, Secretary of the Kazakh Regional Committee of the Communist Party from 1925 to 1933, and Chief State Arbiter of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR from 1933 to 1939. He is best known for his involvement as one of the primary perpetrators of the killing of the Romanov family, as well as for the deadly role which he played in the Sovietization of Kazakhstan, (Small October), (, a reference to the "Great October"), leading to the Kazakh famine of 1932–1933. An active participant in Stalinist repression during the Great Purge (1936–1938), he was arrested after the fall of Nikolai Yezhov in 1939, and later shot without trial by the NKVD in 1941.

Early life and career

Born 9 March [O.S. 26 February] 1876 in Nevel to a family of Jewish contractors, his true birth name is unknown, in various sources, Isai (Yiddish: Shaya or Shai) and Isak, Isayevich, Isaakovich, Itskovich are indicated as real names. His first wife, Bertha Iosifovna Perelman, was born in 1876 to the family of an artisan. She was arrested and sent into exile in the Narym region. In exile Bertha Perelman married Goloshchyokin. She died in 1918. After graduating from a dental school in Riga, Goloshchyokin worked for a time as a dental technician. In 1903 he joined the RSDLP. He conducted revolutionary work in St. Petersburg, Kronstadt, Sestroretsk, Moscow and other cities. He took part in the Revolution of 1905–1907. From 1909, he worked in the Moscow Committee of the RSDLP and directed it. In 1909 he was arrested and exiled to the Narym region, and fled in 1910. In 1912, he was a delegate to the Bolshevik Congress in Prague, at which Vladimir Lenin formalized the break with the Mensheviks and created a separate Bolshevik organization with its own Central Committee, of which Goloshchyokin was a founding member. He assumed the alias Filipp, also transliterated Philipp or Philippe, as his party cryptonym.

In 1913 he was again arrested by the Russian authorities and deported to the Turukhansk Territory in Siberia, and released only after the February Revolution in 1917. In May, Yakov Sverdlov, the Chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, sent Goloshchyokin to the Ural Region, informing the local Bolsheviks: "Comrade Philippe has gone to the Urals; a man; very energetic; with the right party line". He served as a member of the Perm Committee of the All-Union Communist Party, then a member of the Regional Committee. As a delegate to the Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets, Goloshchyokin arrived in Petrograd. He entered the Petrograd Military Revolutionary Committee and participated in the October Revolution. At the Second Congress of Soviets, he was elected a member of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee. Goloshchyokin recalled that before his departure for the Urals, Lenin aimed at delaying the convocation and the subsequent dispersal of the All-Russian Constituent Assembly. After the success of the October Revolution and the outbreak of the Russian Civil War, he was elected to the Presidium of the Ural Regional Soviet, based in Ekaterinburg, and was elected Military Commissar of the Urals, where he formed and headed the Red Guard in the region and oversaw the activities of the Red Army Reserve District in Ekaterinburg. In Spring 1918, he proposed to execute Prince Georgy Lvov, who had served as Chairman of the Provisional Government after the February Revolution, and was a prisoner in Ekaterinburg, but was ordered not to by the People's Commissar for Justice, a Left Socialist Revolutionary, during the period when the Left SRs were in coalition with the Bolsheviks.

Killing of the Romanovs

While he was in Moscow in the spring of 1918, Goloshchyokin decided to first suggest to Yakov Sverdlov that the former Emperor Nicholas II should be moved to Ekaterinburg, where there was less chance of his being rescued by the anti-Bolshevik White Army. Sverdlov and Lenin were reluctant to agree because they planned to put the former emperor on trial in a grand public spectacle, with Leon Trotsky acting as Chief Prosecutor, and they suspected that the militant Ekaterinburg Bolsheviks would lynch him instead, but ultimately agreed that the prisoner and his family should pass through Ekaterinburg on the way to Moscow. Upon arrival in Ekaterinburg, the family and their retainers were imprisoned in the Ipatiev House on the suggestion of Pyotr Voykov, a member of the Ural Soviet, with Yakov Yurovsky, a ranking member of the Ekaterinburg Cheka, appointed as commandant of the Ipatiev House by the decision of the Soviet. Though Yurovsky held direct command on the grounds, overall command was ultimately held by Goloshchyokin as Military Commissar of the Ural Region. In this capacity, he frequently oversaw the dismissal of guardsmen believed too sympathetic to the family and their replacement with more hardened, ruthless Bolshevists. When one of the guards, Ivan Skorokhodov, who was smitten with the Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna, smuggled a birthday cake to the grand duchess for her 19th birthday and was caught fraternizing with the same, Goloshchyokin had him arrested and tightened security.

In a special session on 29 June the Ural Soviet met at the Cheka headquarters in the Amerikanskaya Hotel and agreed that the entire Romanov family should be executed. Goloshchyokin arrived in Moscow on 3 July with a message insisting on the tsar's death. Only seven of the 23 members of the Central Executive Committee were in attendance at the time, three of whom were Lenin, Sverdlov and Felix Dzerzhinsky, where it was seemingly agreed the tsar should be killed without delay, with the details and preparations being left to the discretion of the Ural Soviet.

Yurovsky detailed his interactions with Goloshchyokin in great detail in his memoirs, stating: "In about the middle of July, Filipp told me we had to make preparations for the liquidation in case the [White] front got any closer." On 15 or 16 July, Yurovsky was informed by the Ural Soviet that Red Army contingents were retreating in all directions, and the executions could not be delayed any longer. A coded telegram seeking final approval was sent by Goloshchyokin and Georgy Safarov at around 6:00 PM to Lenin and Sverdlov in Moscow, but the lines were down and they could not get a direct connection, leaving them with no choice but to send the telegram on the direct line to Petrograd instead addressed to Grigory Zinoviev, the head of the Petrograd Soviet, based in the Smolny Institute, with a request to forward a copy to Sverdlov in Moscow. Zinoviev duly forwarded the telegraph to Moscow, noting that he had done so by 5:50 PM Petrograd time. There is no surviving documented record of a final answer from Moscow, although Yurovsky insisted that an order from the Central Executive Committee to move forward signed by Sverdlov had been passed on to him by Goloshchyokin at around 7:00 PM.

While Beloborodov and Safarov remained at the local Cheka Headquarters at the Amerikanskaya Hotel nearby, Goloshchyokin arrived personally at the Ipatiev House along with Peter Ermakov and Stepan Vaganov as a representative of the Ural Soviet to direct the executions, but did not appear to physically participate in the shooting himself, and instead remained outside with the other guardsmen while Yurovsky personally led the assembled death squad.

Goloshchyokin is said to have nervously paced back and forth along the perimeter palisade erected around the Ipatiev House in an attempt to determine if anyone could hear what was going on from outside as one of the guardsmen revved the engines of the fiat truck waiting outside to mask the sounds of the gunfire and barking dogs. When it was clear that the gunfire could be discerned even from outside the palisade walls, one of the guards, Alexei Kabanov, told the killers to cease fire and to use their bayonets and gun butts. As the corpses were brought out from the house and loaded onto the truck, Goloshchyokin stooped down to examine the corpse of the tsar, murmuring, "So this is the end of the Romanov Dynasty, is it...", to which Mikhail Kudrin responded: "No, not yet; there is still much work to be done". According to Kudrin, when the body of the French Bulldog Ortino, "the last pathetic remnant of the Imperial Family", was brought out on the end of a Red Guardsman's bayonet and unceremoniously hurled onto the fiat, Goloshchyokin sneered, "Dogs deserve a dogs death" as he glared at the dead tsar. Goloschyokin climbed into the truck and departed along with Yurovsky, Kudrin, Ermakov, and Vaganov, while Yurovsky's deputy Nikulin was left in charge of the Ipatiev House.

At a telegraph office in Ekaterinburg on 18 July, he caught Sir Thomas Preston, a diplomat at the British Consulate, attempting to cable Sir Arthur Balfour in London with the message, "The Tsar Nicholas the Second was shot last night." Goloshchyokin snatched it, and struck out the words of Preston's text with a red pencil, rewriting on the paper, "The hangman Tsar Nicholas was shot last night – a fate he richly deserved." On 19 July, Goloshchyokin announced at the Opera House on Glavny Prospekt that "Nicholas the Bloody" had been shot and his family taken to a secure location. He subsequently oversaw the disposal of the remains along with Yurovsky, while Beloborodov and Nikulin oversaw the ransacking of the Romanov's quarters, with the most valuable items piled into Yurovsky's office and later transported to Moscow in sealed trunks under heavy guard by commissars on Goloshchyokin's instructions, while items deemed of little consequence were stuffed into the stoves and burned. Goloshchyokin was safely evacuated from Ekaterinburg along with most of the other members of the Ural Soviet prior to the arrival of the White Army, who captured Ekaterinburg on 25 July.

Famine in Kazakhstan

From October 1922 to 1925, Goloshchyokin served as Chairman of the Samara Provincial Council of Workers, Peasants and Red Army Deputies, Chairman of the Samara Gubernaya Executive Committee and a member of the Provincial Committee of the RCP. On October 23, 1922, he abolished martial law in the Samara Province. He was elected a Candidate Member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1924, and a Full Member in 1927. On 19 February 1925, he was appointed First Secretary of the Communist Party in the newly created Kazakh Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic. From 1925 to 1933 he ran the Kazakh ASSR with virtually no outside interference as a local dictator. He played a prominent part in the construction of the Turkestan-Siberia railway, which was constructed to open up Kazakhstan's mineral wealth. After Joseph Stalin ordered the forced collectivization of agriculture throughout the Soviet Union, Goloshchyokin ordered that Kazakhstan's largely nomadic population was to be forced to settle in collective farms. This caused a deadly famine in Kazakhstan which killed between 1 and 2 million people. Some historians and scholars consider that this famine amounted to genocide of the Kazakhs, however others do not accept this view. In Kazakhstan some studies repeated the Soviet explanation of the genocide, terming it as the Goloshchyokin genocide.
38% of all Kazakhs died, the highest number of any ethnic group killed per capita in the Soviet famines of the early 1930s. Violent measures were taken to enable the transfer of nomads to sedentary lifestyles, which led to massive casualties, mainly among the indigenous Kazakh population. Large numbers of Kazakh nomads fled across the border into Xinjiang in the Republic of China during this time.

While a general figure of around 1–2 million deaths is often given, some Kazakh historians give significantly higher estimates of the number of victims of the famine and violence, such as Professor K.M. Abzhanov, Director of the Institute of History and Ethnology who stated that: "Hunger killed at least 3 million Kazakhs. One-sixth of the indigenous population left their historical homeland forever. Of 3.5 million Kazakhs in 1897 accounting for 82% of the region's population, by 1939 there were only 2.3 million, their share in the population of the republic fell to 38%". Two Soviet censuses show that the number of the Kazakhs in the Kazakh ASSR dropped from 3,637,612 in 1926 to 2,181,520 in 1937. The actions of the Soviet government made Kazakhs a minority in the Kazakh ASSR, and not until the 1990s did Kazakhs become the largest group in Kazakhstan again.

A historian of the revolution, V.L. Burtsev, who knew Goloshchyokin, characterized him as such:

Statements have been made that, in seven years, he never went outside the capital and was not interested in how the people lived, and did not correspond to reality. In April 1931, Goloshchyokin traveled only ten districts. The handling of collectivization and "dekulakization" under his leadership in Kazakhstan is remembered by a feeling of hatred and horror by the Kazakh people.

Downfall
In August 1932, the second most senior communist in Kazahstan, the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars, Uraz Isayev, wrote to Stalin accusing Goloshchyokin of believing his own myth that every single Kazakh had decided to join the collective farms, and of blaming his own mistakes on 'kulaks'. In October, a prominent Kazakh writer, Gabit Musirepov reporting finding corpses stacked like firewood by the roadside in the Turgai district of Kazakhstan. The West Siberian party boss, Robert Eikhe, also complained about starving Kazakhs pouring into Siberia, while Stalin and Vyacheslav Molotov queried the number of Kazakh refuges crossing the border into China.

Goloshchyokin defended himself by claiming that the poor and middle income Kazakhs had "Voluntarily, in  powerful waves, turned towards socialism". At first it appeared he had Stalin's support. On 11 November 1932, he and Isaev ordered the mass arrest and deportation of peasants accused of impeding grain collection. In January 1933, at a plenum of the Central Committee, he boasted of the "enormous successes" of the Five year Plan in Kazakhstan – but a few days later, he was suddenly sacked, and was subject to widespread public criticism for his handling of collectivization. By blaming the famine on Goloshchyokin personally rather than larger structural issues with collectivization, Stalin failed to prevent similar problems during collectivization in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic that would lead to the Holodomor.

After his return to Moscow, despite being appointed to a senior post as President of the State Council of Arbitration, Goloshchyokin brooded over his dismissal, and threatened suicide until his exasperated wife, Elizaveta Arsenievna Goloshchyokina, handed him a pistol and dared him to shoot himself – after which he reputedly never threatened suicide again. Throughout his term as Chief State Arbiter of the Council of People's Commissars, he was an active participant in Stalinist repression, and was a frequent contact and collaborator of Nikolai Yezhov, the head of the NKVD from 1936 to 1938 during the most active period of the Great Purge.

Arrest and execution
Unlike most prominent Old Bolsheviks, he survived the Great Purge unscathed for as long as Nikolai Yezhov was the head of the NKVD; but when Yezhov was arrested in 1939, he made a detailed confession to his interrogators, including the information that he had lived in Goloshchyokin's apartment in Kzyl-Orda, then the capital of the Kazakh ASSR, in the latter half of 1925, and that during those months, they were homosexual lovers. Homosexuality was not a criminal offense in the USSR in 1925, though it was criminalized in 1934, but Goloshchyokin, who was almost 20 years older than Yezhov, was arrested nonetheless on 15 October 1939. He was accused of sympathy for Trotskyism, the preparation of a terrorist act, excesses in the matter of collectivization, and of spying for Nazi Germany.
He spent 12 months under heavy interrogation in the Sukhanovo Prison, after which he was returned to Butyrka prison by August 1941 at the time of the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II, and was then transferred a final time to Kuybyshev by 17 October when the headquarters of the NKVD were evacuated there in connection with the approach of the Wehrmacht towards Moscow. He was one of 20 'especially dangerous' prisoners, who included 14 high-ranking military officers, who were executed by firing squad on 28 October 1941 on the direct orders of Lavrentiy Beria near the village of Barbysh and consigned to an unmarked grave.

He was posthumously rehabilitated in 1961, 20 years after his death. From 1976 to 1990, one of the streets in Ekaterinburg, then known as Sverdlovsk, was named after Goloshchyokin.

Name
The surname is often written as "Goloshchekin", a transliteration of the surname written without diacritics: Голощeкин.

He is also often referred to as Shaya Goloshchekin (Шая) by the diminutive from the name Isay in Yiddish. "Filipp" was his party cryptonym.

In popular culture
Goloshchyokin was portrayed by Lithuanian actor Jokūbas Bareikis in the 2019 American docudrama The Last Czars, and by Russian actor Sergei Nikonenko in the 2021 Kazakh film The Crying Steppe.

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References

Helen Rappaport. The Last Days of the Romanovs: Tragedy at Ekaterinburg. St. Martin's Griffin, 2010.

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Framed: Why Michael Skakel Spent Over a Decade in Prison For a Murder He Didn't Commit
Peter Berkrot
On Halloween 1975, Martha Moxley was found brutally murdered outside her home in swanky Greenwich, Connecticut. Twenty-seven years after her death, the State of Connecticut spent some $25 million to convict her friend and neighbor, Michael Skakel, of the murder. At Michael's criminal trial, the State offered no physical or forensic evidence, no fingerprints or DNA, no eyewitness linking Michael to the killing. The trial ignited a media firestorm that transfixed the nation.
Now, Skakel's cousin, acclaimed attorney and award-winning writer Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., solves the baffling whodunit and clears his cousin's name.
Kennedy, with meticulous research and reporting, proves that Michael Skakel did not and could not have murdered Martha Moxley. He chronicles how Skakel was, nevertheless, railroaded amidst a media frenzy by the devious actions of a crooked cop, a trio of mendacious writers, a treacherous family lawyer nursing a secret grudge, a narcissistic defense attorney obsessed by the spotlight, a craven prosecutor gone rogue, and a parade of perjuring witnesses. These colorful characters leap off the pages like seedy villains in a dime-store crime novel . . . but it's all true.
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The ground beef recall was announced on March 8 by the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) after an independent laboratory tested a sample of the meat and found it to be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7. There have been no reports of illnesses related to the contaminated meat.
The meat was produced by Creekstone Farms Premium Beef, based in Arkansas City, Kansas and was shipped to Arizona, California, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Washington in 40 to 60-pound cases. The meat was then further processed and/or distributed from those states and sold under a variety of different retail names. As of press time, the FSIS did not have a list of retail names that the meat might have been sold under.
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Baseball Forum - MLB Forum - Fantasy & College Baseball Forums > Other Baseball Discussions > World Baseball Discussion > Major League Baseball could be played in Australia as early as 2014.
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Major League Baseball could be played in Australia as early as 2014.
After the success of its international launch in Japan this year, baseball's premier domestic competition is looking to host the opening series Down Under.
"We are investigating. It's still early days but we've done some considerable work," MLB International's Australia and Oceania director Tom Nicholson said.
"What we're investing in this country and in this region is significant...
"Next year we've got the World Baseball Classic, so the next window of such an exercise would be 2014, 2015 and then we will be going back to Tokyo in 2016."
The series would most likely be played in Sydney.
The Athletics is one team keen to put up its hand again.
Oakland already boasts a strong Aussie connection, with four of the six Australians to have played in the majors this season having worn the club's green and gold.
Last month in a game against the Chicago White Sox, the Athletics became the first team to feature three Aussies with Luke Hughes, Grant Balfour and Rich Thompson all on the roster....
Earlier this month, left-handed pitcher Travis Blackley was picked up by Oakland after a stint with the San Francisco Giants.
Liam Hendriks (Minnesota Twins) and Josh Spence (San Diego Padres) are other Aussies to feature in MLB this season.
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The other day I was driving on a major highway and noticed a billboard on my right. I don't slow down for billboards, unless I'm planning on being the accident of the day, but this one made me laugh. I decided to get off at the exit and make a second pass at it.
The billboard was simple: lots of white space and a one-line address; no city name, just a street number.
As I whizzed past the billboard and the exit I thought, "Where is 700 Central Avenue?" I know my way around, but I don't think about the business numbers as I drive the highway.
Is it more of a women's thing? Would a man automatically know the address? I was wondering what it was near and where should I exit. By the way if you Google "700 Central Avenue" it brings up about a dozen addresses in different states.
The number is meaningless to me; maybe it's just me . I remember places by locations and landmarks not by numbers.
To check out my theory, I reached in my book case for a copy of what I call my "gender marketing bible." The book is called, Why Men Don't Listen and Women Can't Read Maps by Allan and Barbara Pease.
If you're interested in gender differences, Barbara and Allan Pease are the best and the funniest. According to the book, I was on the right track; women are more likely to find places by their locations rather than their addresses. For instance, "next to Marshals on Central Avenue" makes more sense than 700 Central Avenue. Having both of the above is even better. How about including the city name so I can put it in my GPS tracking system?
This prompted me to research billboards in general. What are the tips for building an effective billboard? I have never researched billboards and know very little about them. This article, Ads on Your Digital Billboard: You Are Your Customers' Salesman, Not an Artist had three tips that seem very useful.
Advertising messages should be created for, and directed at, the Heavy Using Customers in your category. I would think in this case women although men seem to be doing lots of the supermarket shopping.
Women make (almost all of) the financial decisions and they buy (almost) everything—commercial as well as consumer goods. That doesn't seem surprising.
People over 50 comprise 29% of the population and they control 77% of financial assets (and they are the target for 10% of all advertising!!!) It's interesting that more advertising dollars aren't spent on the over 50 crowd; I was beginning to think it was personal.
A billboard is a way to market your customer service. Directions to your business are part of customer service, and not everyone thinks the same way. I thought maybe the billboard was a teaser; it was so exciting that everyone will get to the exit and go back and read it again—I wonder.
In order to get known a business has to market itself and its customer service to the target consumer. Customer service is a prevailing attitude that permeates the company—it is "the company" and defines your business.
If businesses defined it this way, they wouldn't be cryptic about their directions. Maybe I don't have a sense of humor. I know I don't have much time to shop or do anything other than work.
How about his; "We just came to town and to find us get off at the next exit, exit 5. You'll find us at 700 Central Avenue.
Oh and by the way, when I get to the intersection do I turn right or left?
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Was that billboard in northern New England? It reminded me of that old Yankee shopkeeper who, when asked for directions to his store, replied: it's the fifth building BEFORE the post office.
That is a riot, thanks Dan.


On this day, 19 October 1985 … To Cut a Long Story Short, the Roy of the Rovers plot went a bit bonkers in the 1985/86 football season. As we saw earlier in the year, the season ended in unbelievable tragedy when most of the Melchester team were killed in a bus crash, having made it Through the Barricades of a Middle-Eastern hostage crisis. But the credibility of readers had already been stretched at the start of the season when Roy had decided to create a Lifeline for his struggling team by signing Gold-en oldie, ex-players (now TV personalities) Bob Wilson (Scotland, Arsenal, Football Focus) and Emlyn Hughes (England, Liverpool, A Question of Sport); cricket legend Geoff Boycott (as Rovers' new chairman); and, yes, it's True, feather-cut, New Romantic popsters Martin Kemp and Steve Norman of Spandau Ballet.
Wilson and Hughes, aged 43 and 38 respectively, went straight into Rovers' starting line-up, but Roy seems to have had doubts over the inclusion of the Spandau boys. Instead, he played them in a reserve game, attracting a sell-out crowd to Mel Park, which must have pleased Mr Boycott. To Roy's chagrin, Kemp and Norman played worldies, scoring a goal each and creating an entirely self-afflicted selection headache for the Highly Strung player-manager.
It's all lovely to see, especially having recently read Barrie's book about being Roy's editor – in Roy of the Rovers and his original home in Tiger. Like Steve MacManus' The Mighty One, Real Roy of the Rovers Stuff gives great insight into the professional environment in which one of IPC's most prolific and successful editors worked, and the thinking behind many of the creative decisions that formed our comic heroes. Barrie's book is a shorter, quicker read than Steve's, and his voice is that of one of the old school (one of Roy of the Rovers' definitive artists, the late Yvonne Hutton, is rather archaically described as a 'lady artist'), but it is nevertheless a fascinating and revealing book. Central to Barrie's strategy with Roy of the Rovers was a determination to establish the strip – and the character of Roy himself – as a cultural icon. Unarguably, this was achieved – in part through the sterling work of writer Tom Tully and artists Hutton, Joe Colquhoun, Paul Trevillion, David Sque, Mike White and Barrie Mitchell, but perhaps none more significantly than Barrie himself, who dreamed up many of the plots that grabbed national headlines, constructed the press releases (often including specially written comments by Roy himself) and even ghost-wrote letters from Roy to take issue with observations made in the papers by well-known football writers.
I disagree with Barrie on his belief (written in the book, and also expressed on the Comics Britannia clip) that Fleetway were wrong to cause Roy to end his career by losing a foot in a helicopter crash in 1993. Barrie feels that it was ill-advised to have ruled out any chance of Roy making a comeback and continuing his career. Personally, I think that the imposition of a definite conclusion to Roy's playing career only enhanced the story that came before. We can appreciate it all the more for seeing it as a complete story, with a beginning, a middle and an end. That said, pretty much anything is possible in comics – as Barrie has demonstrated – and I'm sure Roy of the Rovers will continue in some form or another now that Rebellion own such valuable rights.
Oct 18 On this day, 18 October 1986: Oink!!


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NEW RELEASE: The Bluetones Expecting To Fly
"Expecting To Fly (is) the tale of quiet resolve winning out against the clatter of instant acclaim, of the redeeming power of single-mindedness against compromise; the joy in winning the battle bloodlessly, by force of personality alone."
NME – 8/10, 1996
"This combination of classic pop hooks and emotional intelligence ensures that Expectin To Fly has dated far better than might be expected… well worth revisiting"
Q – 4/5, 2016
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Expecting To Fly – 20th Anniversary Edition comes with an exclusive artprint of the album front cover signed by Mark, Scott, Adam and Eds.
20 years ago, in 1996, The Bluetones released their debut album, Expecting To Fly. It knocked Oasis 'What's The Story Morning Glory' off the top of the charts in the week the Mancunians scooped an armful of BRIT Awards and heralded the start of The Bluetones hugely successful career.
The Number 1, platinum album featuring the hits Bluetonic, Cut Some Rug and Slight Return is now re-issued with a second disc of previously unreleased material including demos, live and session tracks. The demos are from the Proper Demo Thing cassette which got the band signed to A&M Records and taken from a copy recently found in drummer Eds' archives.
There is a complete concert of the band playing one of their earliest gigs. Supporting Supergrass in March 1995 at the LA2 in London, the small sister venue of the legendary Astoria venue. It captures the vibrant energy and spirit of a band taking their first steps and the 7 track set features the songs that would go on to become some of their most famous hits.
Additionally, each band member has chosen their favourite b-side from the era and along with the stand-alone single Are You Blue Or Are You Blind?, the band's first hit single, make this a fitting package to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the album.
The 2CD comes in a tri-fold sleeve with new artwork, never seen before photographs, sleevenotes from guitarist Adam Devlin, and contributions from the Eds, Scott and Mark.
Order your copy of the 2CD set now from the 3 Loop Music shop and get an exclusive 7″ artprint signed by the boys – it's perfect for framing!
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I was asked by a friend if I would republish this column for Thanksgiving day as a gentle reminder of what we give up when we turn on our phones around the dinner table. There are moments in life when we are stimulated by conversation, and other moments not so much; but by turning our attention to our phones, we tell those around us "I am bored. Perhaps there's something better going on somewhere else." You might not realize it, but you just lost a connection when you got connected. By all means text, chat, scroll, surf and catch-up – just try and do it when it's just you and your virtual world.
Not so long ago I was leisurely wandering with an old friend through his garden when I spied the familiar burnt orange of leaf blotch discoloring what could only be a large horse chestnut tree near his drive. I was surprised to see the tree in such a dry, rural Californian setting and proclaimed my discovery whilst springing over to examine the telltale conkers lying in a mass of opened husks under its branches.
He was not so sure, having remembered a different name given to him years ago with the tree, lost to the depths of time. We picked up the rich mahogany colored seeds as we talked, and after much time spent in "maybes" and "maybe nots" went on to discuss the Californian Buckeye, slipping into dormancy around those Western towns. The conversation was an easy one, I being fairly sure and he being fairly sure, and much good-natured bantering between us as we wandered along his hillside terraces on a lovely afternoon – eventually moving on to other trees, other thoughts and other stories.
A few days later I am sitting at a dinner party with friends, old and new. We are discussing a film from the Eighties: "Was it made in '87 or '88?" someone asks. "Certainly '87," says an authoritative film junkie. Another tries to mark it with events…a presidency…or the year banana clips made their debut perhaps. "Was that the year the Wall came down?" another wonders…"Nope, definitely '89 on that one" shouts a history buff. The conversation is in full swing now, everyone offering their opinion, everyone sure of his or her facts, and much laughter ensuing.
I readily admit that technological advances over the last ten years have made my job a lot easier. I no longer need to be at my desk with RHS manuals within reach to find out the name of that amazing unnamed Floribunda I came across on a garden tour. I can write on vacation and send articles to editors over invisible wireless connections that hum with the presence of the hive mind – ever busy, ever building, ever updated.
If you are lucky enough this Thanksgiving to share a table with your nearest and dearest, please resist the urge to quick-draw the pocket sized Oracle from its holster. No one really needs to know the definitive answers to an evening's trivia, nor does the world need to be updated on how much turkey you're eating or where you are. The only people who matter are those around that table, and giving them one hundred percent of you is the very best gift you can give.
Stay present. Save those texts for later, and you will be saving a great deal more than that. Happy Thanksgiving everyone.
We'll said! And even though I may stand guilty as charged I've sent your note around to family and friends for the holiday. What we're really thankful for is generally not to be found on the internet.
Great article Marianne! Your words on this subject are so true and hopefully will be taken to heart by many who might just see themselves as perpetrators of these conversational crimes.


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U Agathis Pecatu will open in August 2012
Absolute Hotel Services (AHS) has announced that its second U Resort in Bali will open its doors this summer.
The company has taken over the management contract of the existing Le Grande Bali, which will now be rebranded and relaunched as U Agathis Pecatu in August 2012.
The property is located in the Pecatu Indah Resort Complex, adjacent to the New Kuta Golf Course, and includes 190 rooms and suites.
"This is even more exciting news for us to have an opportunity to take on another property under the brand of U Hotels & Resorts which will be the second U Resort in Bali opening within the same year. The product and facilities of U Agathis Pecatu and its location will be perfect for couples, families and MICE travellers to Bali." said Jonathan Wigley, CEO of AHS.
The resort's facilities include an outdoor swimming pool, jacuzzi, sauna, spa, fitness centre, tennis court, children's playground, kids' club and library.
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Registration for Staff Camp has closed. Please email Des, desleigh.davies@ac.edu.au or call 02 8893 9047 if you have any questions.
The theme of Staff Camp 2019 is One College, One Community. Our mission is to equip Christian leaders to change the world. In this we are united as campuses, departments, and colleagues. We work together to give our students the best we can. Administrators and teachers, accountants and librarians, gardeners and technicians, we bring all of our gifts to the service of God in this place, in this time. This is our calling.
So come in anticipation of a special time of worship, fellowship - and fun! Let's look forward to reuniting with old friends and meeting new ones. Let's come together with eager expectation for what God has for us, the Alphacrucis College community.
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Bleach: Immortal Soul – How To Reroll Guide
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In RPG mobile games like Bleach: Immortal Soul, rerolling is popular among players seeking to optimize their accounts and progress faster.
Rerolling is a way to optimize your start by starting over, playing until you get the first or couple of free premium summons, and then starting over again if you don't pull a top tier character.
Rerolling takes time to do, but can be very beneficial if you manage to get a top tier character right at the beginning of the game.
This guide teaches you step by step how to reroll in Bleach: Immortal Soul.
In short, the fastest way to reroll in Bleach: Immortal Soul is by changing server.
To do this, go to the main screen, open up settings, press the server tab, and select a server you have no progress on already.
Play until you've gathered enough Soul Jade to perform a 10x summon.
If you don't pull something you're satisfied with, reroll once more.
How to reroll in Bleach: Immortal Soul
Characters to reroll for in Bleach: Immortal Soul
Should you reroll in Bleach: Immortal Soul
There are two ways to reroll in Bleach: Immortal Soul, by changing server and by creating a new account.
The first method is by far the fastest and most efficient.
The only time you should use the second method is if you absolutely have to play on a specific server.
Here is a step by step rundown of how to reroll by changing server.
Step 1: Go to the main screen and press the settings icon in the top right corner, as shown in the image below.
Step 2: Press the server tab on the settings pop-up window and select a server you haven't played on before.
If there is no character icon on a given server, you have no progress there and can reroll on that server.
Step 3: Once you've selected a new server, you will be taken through the initial campaign walkthrough again.
Now, as the whole point of rerolling is to get your initial pull, you should play until you have enough Soul Jade to perform a 10x Soul Jade Summon, which costs 2160.
You will earn more than 2160 Soul Jade by completing chapter one and chapter two.
Be sure to claim all the Soul Jade rewards from milestone quests as well as the day one reward from the 7-day reward event.
These two sources will give you enough Soul Jade to perform a 10x summon.
If you aren't satisfied with your 10x summon, reroll once more and repeat this process until you've got a start you're happy with.
You can also take advantage of events and codes that are available at the time that you're reading this.
However, these are not always available. Thus, we haven't included them in our steps above.
Players reroll in RPG mobile games, including Bleach: Immortal Soul, to get an incredible start by rerolling until they pull a top tier character.
But with so many characters in the game, which ones should you aim for?
Soul Jade Summons have a 2.2% chance to give an SSR champion each but have no chance to give UR characters directly.
The 10x summon, which you should perform, guarantee at least one complete champion that has a high chance to be of SSR rarity.
The summon can also give UR shards, which it does at a 10.2% chance.
With these odds and ten summons in one 10x summon, it's quite likely you'll get at least one SSR character and a couple of UR shards.
To give you an idea of what characters you want to aim for, check out the following list.
Kenpachi
Zangestu
Of these characters, only Byakuya is of SSR rarity, which means you can pull him in complete form.
The rest are all UR, which means you can only pull shards of them.
Therefore, we recommend you go with Byakuya if you pull him.
If you pull a lot of UR shards of any of the above-listed characters, you could consider going with that.
You can find more great characters to reroll for with more information in our Bleach: Immortal Soul tier list.
Rerolling comes with obvious benefits, as having a top tier character or shards of the best characters in the game from the beginning of the game is a huge advantage.
Not only will it allow you to progress faster, but you'll also not be forced to spend resources on characters you'll be replacing at some point.
Rerolling might, however, not always be the right decision for you.
If you've already played the game for a considerable amount of time, you won't gain much from rerolling as you'll already have farmed so much and progressed so far.
The farther into the game you get, the less important your start becomes.
If you've only played the game for a couple of days or so, then rerolling can definitely be a major help to you.
In the end, it all comes down to if you want to do it or not. No matter what, you'll still have your other saves, so you can always just go back.
That's everything you need to know about how to reroll in Bleach: Immortal Soul as well as which characters to reroll for.
If you have any suggestions or input for this guide, then you can share it with us in the comment section below.
Jack Roque
Jack is an avid gamer who isn't afraid to take on a challenge. Having been a gamer his entire life, Jack is interested in multiple genres of both desktop and mobile games. Thus, he writes on a wide variety of titles. With thousands of hours of game time in popular titles such as League of Legends, Fortnite, Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, and Minecraft, Jack has experienced most video game genres. Throughout his life, he has achieved impressive results in many of these games, reaching high-diamond at his peak in LoL, attaining more than 1000 solo wins in Fortnite, and collected multiple Cutting Edge achievements in WoW. Jack started his career as an online content creator and writer back in 2017. After working in several industries, he knew that he wanted to combine his passion for gaming with his content creation skills, thus he became a writer at Gamerempire.net. Besides his efforts here, Jack contributes to other outlets - making tier lists for Tierlistmania, business-related posts for Medium, and more. You can connect with Jack on Twitter.
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President Donald Trump signed the 2018 Farm Bill Thursday afternoon, signaling the official nationwide legalization of industrial hemp—a moment long-awaited by the cannabis industry.
Earlier this year, U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell inserted language from his Hemp Farming Act of 2018 into the Farm Bill to federally legalize the cultivation and sale of industrial hemp, which is defined as cannabis that contains less than 0.3-percent THC. Congress passed the $867-billion agricultural legislation Dec. 12, effectively removing hemp from the list of controlled substances and allowing states to regulate its production, commerce and research with approval from the USDA.
The Drug Enforcement Administration will no longer be able to interfere with the interstate commerce of hemp products, Kim added, which will open the doors for banks, merchant services, credit card companies, e-commerce sites and advertising platforms to do business with hemp companies.
The cannabis industry now looks ahead to increased investment, research, cultivation and sales in a hemp market that Brightfield Group estimates will reach $22 billion by 2022.


The Security Fire Department donated their 1986 Ford Rehab Squad to the Pikes Peak Firefighter's Association / Fire Rehab group earlier this year. This squad is in very good condition needing only minor service and repairs, and is currently available for service though not entirely equipped with all service items needed to provide top quality support. The addition of this squad will enable the Fire Rehab Group to enhance their service and response capabilities to our area emergency responders. The Association appreciates the continued support and this contribution specifically by the Security Fire Department.
The Mountain View Electric Association / Round-Up Grant Board approved a $5,000.00 grant request for the Pikes Peak Firefighter's Association / Fire Rehab Group to help outfit and equip the 'New Squad'. Specific items to be acquired include a new VHF/UHF/Ham radio, camp style chairs, tables, relettering of the squad, and other service related items. The EPCO Sheriff's Office provided an 800 Mhz. Mobile Radio and AMR contributed a fully equipped BLS med bag and O2 equipment. Thanks to everyone who has enabled the PPFFA to add to their service capabilities.
Does your Agency have news and / or announcements you want to share with everyone? If you do, please send us the information in an e-mail and we will post it here at 'News & Events'.
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The launch programme of "Distribution of Scitech Surya Solar LED Lamps to the tribal school children of Nagri block in Dhamtari" was conducted on Tuesday, 4th December, 2018 at Government High School, Borai. The event was graced by Mr. Rajesh Jhamnani, (Assistant General Manager, ECGC Ltd., Mumbai), Mr. Kalpataru (Branch Manager, ECGC Ltd., Raipur), Mr. V. Nag (Officer, BRC, Nagri, Dhamtari), Mr. T. Sahu (Teacher, Govt. High School, Nagri), Mr. J. S. Markam (Principal, Govt. High School, Ghutkel), Mr. K. Bisen (Govt. High School, Tumdibahar) and Mr. Tandan (Teacher, Govt. High School, Borai).
The event was attended by the teachers and beneficiary school children from Government High Schools of Borai, Ghutkel, Tumdibahar villages.


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OCD Roland, Texas 75097. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is distinguished in two parts: fixations and compulsions. Fascinations are unnecessary and invasive thoughts or feelings that begin to trigger stress and suffering that disrupt everyday jobs. In action to these thoughts or feelings the person begins to participate in repeated behaviors that lessen the stress, referred to as an obsessions or rituals.
The compulsion is made use of to reduce the effects of or deal with the stress. Although the majority of sufferers recognize that their fixations are unreasonable the uncontrollable habits really feels satisfying and induces the personal to feel less restless and troubled. Around 1-2% of the overall populace experiences OCD, an ailment that generally presents in adolescence or early maturity, yet signs present in extremely young little ones too. Indicators frequently flare-up in the course of time periods of raised stress.
Numerous OCD sufferers perform not seek treatment, frequently mentioning feelings of pity or shame regarding the attribute of their fixations and/or compulsions. Studies advise that OCD sufferers go between 12 and 17 years from the beginning of signs before acquiring treatment coming from an ERP (Visibility and Feedback Avoidance) expert.
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The gold specification, very most successful treatment of OCD is referred to as Visibility and Feedback Avoidance (ERP). Therapy is particularly necessary for people that have actually developed ritualized, repeated behaviors including compulsions. ERP is a needed element of CBT for the majority of stress ailments, particularly OCD. The two parts include visibilities– dealing with worries in a systematic, continuous, and deliberate manner to evoke stress– and action (or ritual) protection– actively resisting safety and security behaviors and other avoidant strategies that simply give temporary decline of signs yet sustain the pattern of stress and evasion in the long-lasting. Both factors are essential for successful ERP. Through the ERP method, the personal conquers worries, increases rehabilitative details, and re-trains the human brain to no more evoke a match or trip reaction in the face of these "false alarms." Our specialists will definitely direct you to steadily face the circumstances and thoughts that provoke your OCD while knowing how not to respond with rituals, compulsions, confidence finding or evasion. We also give an "Intense Hospital Program" (IOP) for OCD sufferers in scenarios where no readily available ERP experts are in your geographical location, when solutions are merely not effortlessly accessible, or because symptom extent is expensive for every week outpatient treatment. The treatment is personalized to fulfill the degree of demand, availability, and readiness for improvement to attend to current signs and receive the personal to a higher degree of performing where even more typical outpatient treatment may be the degree of treatment. The objective of an IOP is to total treatment with 4-6 weeks and therefore generally needs sessions back to back times, numerous hours each day, and in some cases over the weekend break.
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The conventional analysis of the role of power in society has only focused on material sources of power. The discourse of this blog acknowledges that civilization has both a material and spiritual dimension, that science and religion are complementary systems of knowledge, and that human nature has both a material and spiritual nature. All of these notions follow from a certain understanding of reality itself – that reality, on an ontological level, has a spiritual dimension, as well as a physical one. We have physical laws and forces, which we have only recently begun to comprehend and harness; and we have spiritual laws and forces, which are relatively more intangible that we have a more dim understanding of at present. However, we respond to spiritual forces regardless of our understanding of them, just like we respond to gravity regardless of our understanding of it. It follows easily, from this understanding of reality, that there are physical or material sources of power, and there are likewise spiritual sources of power. How do we draw up and factor in these powers?
Humanity's history clearly proves the ability to conceive of power in more creative ways than brutish military strength or manipulative economic clout; evidence demonstrates that the human race has always tapped into spiritual sources of power. These include the power of beauty, the power of justice, the power of humility, the power of cooperation and reciprocity, the power of selflessness. Even more obviously is the power of truth, responsible for great artistic, scientific, and philosophical advances; the power of character, inspiring countless generations to create positive change; the power of unity, without which we have no progress; and the power of love.
Before delving into the process of drawing upon these powers, we can already see by this short list of spiritual sources of power that they are unlimited resources – power need not be reduced to a scarce material good for which groups must compete. There is not a fixed amount of humility, cooperation, unity, or integrity, which, when used up is then gone. Understanding that intangibility is not mutually exclusive with existence helps one understand these powers' unlimited ability to transform society and human thought.


I cry a lot. All kinds of tears, all kinds of situations. I always say that my emotions and the Spirit are just too much to be contained and they must spill out of my eyes. The tears need a place to go. I feel the salt of the tears, which reminds me everything needs seasoning, to be truly worth consuming. I want a life that is well seasoned and worthy of consuming. And a good cry always feels good–I feel a weight lifted, a cleansing, a life consumed.
God promised a lightness, a cleansing, a life worthy of living. He promised so many prophets and kings in the Old Testament that He would make a new covenant with HIS people. He would be there, He would save us, He would redeem us, He would wipe away our tears and hold us close–all those who believe in the might and power of a one true Lord. He sent Jesus to be the Christ, to be the Messiah, to BE that new promise. That Light of the world that will sparkle on our tears and turn them into rainbows. Jesus Christ holds us through the bad times, He shelters us, and carries us to a promised land.
This Easter let us proclaim the name of Jesus: who carried out years of promises and prophecies. Who lived His life in service and teaching, that we, 2000 years later would be able to celebrate His life and death. I have a feeling the joy and amazingness of this promise realized will spill out of my eyes on Easter morning. But they will be colorful tears, radiating the power of my Savior in my life.


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How Restorasi Ekosistem Riau is Taking on the Restoration Challenge
In 2013, APRIL Group established Restorasi Ekosistem Riau (RER), an ecosystem restoration initiative aimed at protecting, restoring and conserving ecologically important peatland forest within Indonesia's Riau Province.
The programme is part of APRIL's commitment to conserve one hectare for every hectare planted, under 60-year eco-restoration licences granted by the Indonesian Ministry of Environment and Forestry. To date, APRIL has met 83% of its goal with more than 400,000 hectares of forest protected and conserved. In 2015, APRIL pledged USD 100 million for long-term conservation and restoration. .
At its inception four years ago, RER began with protecting and restoring 20,000 hectares of peat forest in the Kampar Peninsula, Riau. At the 2015 COP 21 in Paris, APRIL announced the expansion of RER to 150,000 hectares that includes Padang Island, also in Riau province. Partners Fauna & Flora International (FFI), The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and local social NGO, BIDARA brought their social and scientific expertise to the implementation of the programme, and we continue to work with both these highly respected conservation organisations.
The Kampar Peninsula is particularly important as it has been recognized by BirdLife International, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and WWF as an Important Bird Area (2004), Key Biodiversity Area (2006), and Tiger Conservation Area (2007), respectively.
Further, The Nature Conservancy noted in 2017 that the 344,000 ha block of peat forest in Kampar Peninsula is the largest remaining peat forest in Riau where quality is maintained and is improving and which provides an important link between the remaining blocks of natural forest in Riau and Kerumutan Wildlife Conservation area.
APRIL Dialog spoke with Bradford Sanders of RER, about the project, the progress being made and the importance of community involvement.
RER talks about ecosystem restoration as a four-stage process. Can you explain more?
Protect, assess, restore and manage, in that order. First the landscape needs to be protected from the risks of new encroachment or degradation to enable the next steps to materialize. Next is the assessment of the ecosystem and social environment, which informs stage three, restoration strategy and work on the hydrology, native plant and wildlife species. The final step is the continuous process of managing the landscape to ensure the sustainability of the natural resources within the concession.
So what stage are you currently at now with RER?
It's a constant process and not as linear as it might sound. All stages are in progress in different areas of the 150,000 ha. Forest protection is applied across all areas of RER by preventing illegal logging, encroachment and fires. Carbon, community and biodiversity assessments are on-going processes with our partner FFI that has completed three of five concession areas totaling 92,507 hectares.
Restoration of hydrology began in 2015 with the closure of several old unmanaged or illegally established canals, and will continue until all canals are dealt with.
Conservation Action Plans are being drafted for specific wildlife and plant species, as well as riparian habitats.
Management is an ongoing requirement. For example, currently RER is developing Fishing Groups that are monitoring and documenting fish catches, so trends can be analyzed to develop plans for fish population enhancements.
The assessment phase is critical in establishing benchmarks. Does this mean that every restoration project is unique?
Yes, restoration activities are customized for a particular resource based upon the existing condition and desired future condition.
Are there general rules that can be applied to a restoration project?
A very important rule is the need for widespread stakeholder involvement from both local communities and scientific experts. Also, in all cases, restoration must be adapted to the specific site and be continuously monitored, assessed and updated based on results.
We also need to recognize that restoration takes time and needs significant, long-term and secured financial investments. Results do not come quickly and require consistency in implementation.
Is there a known time frame to restore a forest? What are some of the factors that might influence timings?
Timeframes vary widely, depending upon the start point and most significantly, of course, the level of degradation.
In fact, a tropical rain forest can recover on its own after, for example, a volcanic eruption, in 80-120 years if there is no repeated disturbance occurring. Active restoration can speed up this process and theoretically accelerate timeframes or direct it in a specific pathway.
How important is the community to a restoration project?
Local community knowledge and acceptance of institutional 'restoration' efforts are essential. If not, then new disturbances may occur and delay restoration or recovery efforts.
Collaboration between the restoration land manager and community is important to ensure the community will continue to have access to the resources they need from the forest to be utilized sustainably.
What are some of the operational challenges in restoring forest on peatland landscapes?
There is a long list of challenges. These include remote access, high water levels, heat and humidity, the absence of natural navigational aids due to flat terrain and short sight lines, unstable footing because of exposed roots, and the presence of insects and potentially dangerous wildlife.
Then there's the fact that we are still learning about succession pathways for peat forest ecosystems. For example, if the starting point for recovery and restoration is peatland that has been drained, burned, compacted, and converted to an introduced species, there are currently few documented procedures or timelines for implementing management activities aimed at returning the site to its original species composition, stocking or size distribution of trees and plants.
The challenges are many: restoring the water table, controlling the presence of the introduced species, obtaining suitable quantity and quality of planting stock and/or natural seed sources, timing and density of plantings, and the influence of drought and flooding cycles. This is why forest landscape restoration requires multi-stakeholder involvement and support, and for scientific inputs to be accepted and understood.
Finally, there's the danger of repeated disturbances from encroachment or fire that can eliminate years of planting or restoration and tree growth in a single day.
What is the most notable accomplishment thus far?
Since RER was established in 2013, we have developed forest and fire protection systems as well as worked to develop the trust and co-operation of local fisherman that continue to use the rivers within the RER area.
Since 2015, we are happy to report there has been no illegal logging, fires or forest encroachment in RER. This is one of the longest 'rest periods' the RER area has experienced since before 2013 and greatly enhances the ability of the forest and wildlife to naturally recover.
How did you accomplish this?
RER has a total of 64 employees and more than 100 contracted rangers and staff that work to protect and restore the forest every day.
Over 80% of RER's workforce originates from the two regencies in Riau in which RER is located, Pelalawan and Kepulauan Meranti. This demonstrates the commitment of local people to ecosystem restoration and helps RER to establish trust and better understand the needs of forest users.
We focus our forest protection efforts on the main access points to the forest and remain in continuous contact with forest users to define and enforce the activities that are legally allowed to occur within the forest.
RER rangers
RER balances flora and fauna restoration – which is most important? How do you balance the requirements of each?
Flora restoration is the most important, meaning a suitable habitat must be available for an animal species to survive and thrive.
When is a forest considered 'restored'?
It's an ongoing process. Another way of putting this is to liken restoration to 'recovery' whereby specific values are returned or recovered to the forest area and which meet human needs. That's what we're working to achieve.
RER tree nursery that breeds local species to be replanted at restoration sites
What is your most memorable moment since working with RER?
There have been many, because it is such a pleasure to work with a team that is truly dedicated and motivated to protect and restore the peat forest.
One of the most exciting and unexpected events was to learn from our Environment Officers and Rangers that a salt water crocodile lurks in the depths of the Serkap River inside RER.
We had heard rumors of this from the local fishermen, but it wasn't until we placed a camera trap near the river that we were able to document this 4-meter long creature actually existed. Needless to say, our staff no longer swim in the river!
For more information on the Restorasi Ekosistem Riau, visit www.rekoforest.org
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Sopikova Alla
Constituency: Slonimsky № 58
Member of the Standing Commission on Law
Working Group of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus on Cooperation with the Parliament of the People's Republic of China
Working Group of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus on Cooperation with the Parliament of the State of Israel
Working Group of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus on Cooperation with the Parliament of the Republic of Latvia
Born on January 24, 1963 in Solyanka Station, Narimanov District, Astrakhan Region.
Higher education – Graduated from S.M.Kirov Vitebsk State Pedagogical Institute, a teacher of mathematics.
Positions: teacher at Vysokskaya secondary school in Orsha District, Vitebsk Region; teacher of mathematics and computer science; deputy director for educational work at Ozernitskaya secondary school in Slonim District, Grodno Region; teacher of computer science at secondary school No 4 in Slonim District, Grodno Region; deputy director at secondary school No 9 in Slonim, Grodno Region; chief specialist, deputy head of the educational department of Slonim District Executive Committee, Grodno Region; director of secondary school No 9 in Slonim, Grodno Region.
Was a deputy of Slonim District Council of Deputies of the twenty-sixth convocation; chairperson of the Board of Directors of the educational institutions of Slonim District; deputy of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus of the fifth convocation, member of the Standing Commission on Education, Culture and Science.
Awards: a winner of the contest "Woman of the Year in Grodno Region" in the category "For leadership and successful management", award of Grodno Regional Executive Committee "Woman of the Year in Grodno Region – 2011", honorary diploma of the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Belarus, honorary diploma of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus, a letter of appreciation of the President of the Republic of Belarus.
Married with two children.


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Mortgage servicers reported a 31.2% jump in new foreclosures in the third quarter of 2010, but the nation's mortgage portfolio showed some signs of stabilizing as the rate of serious delinquency dropped to its lowest point in five quarters, and the percentage of mortgages in good standing remained unchanged.
The report covers about 64% of all first-lien mortgages in the country—about 33.3 million loans with $5.8 trillion in outstanding balances.
The report said 87.4% of all mortgages were current and performing in the third quarter, the same rate as the previous quarter but slightly better than the 87.2% rate in the year-ago period; 5.8% of all loans were seriously delinquent (60 or more days past due, or 30 or more days past due in the case of borrowers in bankruptcy), down from 6.2% a year earlier. However, the report noted a slight uptick to 3.2% in the rate of loans delinquent between 30 and 59 days.
While the number of loan modifications declined by 17% from the previous quarter, lenders continued to aggressively pursue principal and interest rate reductions of loans they did modify. In the overall portfolio, 88.2% of modifications made in the third quarter reduced principal and interest payments; and 54.1% reduced monthly payments by more than 20%. Nearly all modifications under the Home Affordable Mortgage Program (HAMP) reduced borrowers' principal and interest payments, and 76% reduced monthly payments by 20% or more.
Re-default rates continued to drop on modified mortgages. Only 10.5% of loans modified in the second quarter of 2010 were 60 or more days delinquent three months after modification compared with an 18.7% re-default rate in the same category a year earlier. Likewise, 4.7% of loans modified in the second quarter were 90 or more days delinquent three months after modification compared with 9.6% a year earlier. The corresponding re-default rates for HAMP modifications were lower across all categories.
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The FDIC approved an interim final rule under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act that Chairman Sheila Bair said furthers the statutory intent that "creditors bear the losses of any failure." The rule clarifies how the agency will treat certain creditor claims under the new orderly liquidation authority established under Dodd-Frank.
Title II of Dodd-Frank provides a mechanism for appointing the FDIC as receiver for a financial company if the company's failure and its liquidation under the Bankruptcy Code or other insolvency procedures would pose a significant risk to the financial stability of the United States.
The interim final rule differs from the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPR) (tinyurl.com/2bbd3r6), which was released in October 2010, by clarifying the standard for valuation for collateral on secured claims and by clarifying the treatment of contingent claims. One aspect of the NPR elicited a number of comment letters: The availability of additional payments to creditors under the authority of Dodd-Frank.
The interim final rule does not change this proposal from the NPR. The FDIC said many people who submitted comments said it was important to limit any "additional payments" as a means of reducing moral hazard and instilling market discipline. Others were concerned with the prohibition of any additional payments to holders of long-term debt, which is defined as debt with an original term of more than 360 days, based on the misapprehension that shorter-term creditors are likely to receive such payments.
The FDIC said in its press release that, under the standards of Dodd-Frank and the interim final rule, the concern is unwarranted. Short-term debtholders are highly unlikely to meet the criteria set forth in the statute for permitting payment of additional amounts. In virtually all cases, holders of shorter-term debt will receive the same pro rata share of their claim that is being provided to the long-term debtholders.
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France to plant 1bn trees by 2030
Hannah Steiner
marine wildlife conservation and environmental activist
France will also grow its amphibious aircraft fleet as Macron announced an "unprecedented" €250 million will be spent have a total of 16 Canadairs by 2027, up from the current 12.
France will plant 1 billion trees – or 10% of the country's forest area – by 2030 to capture carbon and preserve biodiversity, President Emmanuel Macron told firefighters in a speech on Friday (28 October).
In France, blazes destroyed 72,000 hectares of forest this summer, or six times more than the average of the last ten years.
In his speech, Macron thanked the many hundred firefighters, foresters, elected representatives and security actors who had their part in fighting the fires that destroyed the thousands of hectares of forest this summer.
"Heroes, welcome!" the Elysée announced on its Twitter account, ahead of Macron's speech at the Elysée Palace on Friday.
In his speech Macron also announced his new forest strategy for 2030, which aims to reinforce departmental and airborne resources.
Among the announced measures, Macron said the departmental fire and rescue services will receive a yearly budget of €150 million.
France will also grow its amphibious aircraft fleet as Macron announced an "unprecedented" €250 million will be spent have a total of 16 Canadairs by 2027, up from the current 12.
"The President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron […] thanked a whole nation that has stood up," Gregory Allione, the president of the National Federation of French Firefighters (FNSPF), tweeted in reaction to Macron's speech.
Though France's head of state praised the forest project, he warned that due to climate change, future summers "may not be as exceptional" as this year's.
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Brushing and flossing are everyday ways to keep your teeth bright, white and healthy. Still, if you might feel like your smile is lacking some sparkle or is more yellow than it used to be, you're not alone. When the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry asked people what they'd most like to improve about their smile, the most common response was whiter teeth. The American Association of Orthodontists also found that nearly 90% of patients requested tooth whitening.
All toothpastes help remove surface stain through the action of mild abrasives that scrub the teeth. Look for whitening toothpastes that have earned the ADA Seal of Acceptance for stain removal (it will tell you on the package). These toothpastes have additional polishing agents that are safe for your teeth and provide stain removal effectiveness. Unlike bleaches, these types of ADA-Accepted products do not change the color of teeth because they can only remove stains on the surface.
This procedure is called chairside bleaching and usually requires only one office visit. The dentist will apply either a protective gel to your gums or a rubber shield to protect your gums. Bleach is then applied to the teeth.
Your dentist can provide you with a custom-made tray for at-home whitening. In this case, the dentist will give you instructions on how to place the bleaching solution in the tray and for what length of time. This may be a preferred option if you feel more comfortable whitening in your own home at a slower pace, but still with the guidance of a dentist. Out-of-office bleaching can take anywhere from a few days to a few weeks.
You may see different options online or in your local grocery store, such as toothpastes or strips that whiten by bleaching your teeth. The concentration of the bleaching agent in these products is lower than what your dentist would use in the office. If you are thinking about using an over-the-counter bleaching kit, discuss options with your dentist and look for one with the ADA Seal of Acceptance. That means it has been tested to be safe and effective for teeth whitening. Get a list of all ADA-Accepted at-home bleaching products.
Some people who use teeth whiteners may experience tooth sensitivity. That happens when the peroxide in the whitener gets through the enamel to the soft layer of dentin and irritates the nerve of your tooth. In most cases the sensitivity is temporary. You can delay treatment, then try again.
Overuse of whiteners can also damage the tooth enamel or gums, so be sure to follow directions and talk to your dentist.