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More unemployment benefits = no food stamps
When President Barack Obama increased unemployment benefits as part of his economic stimulus, he also made some Americans ineligible for hundreds of dollars a month in food stamps.
Under the economic recovery plan, laid-off workers have seen a $25 weekly bump in their unemployment checks as part of a broad expansion of benefits for the poor. But the law did not raise the income cap for food stamp eligibility, so the extra money has pushed some people over the limit.
Laid-off workers and state officials are only now realizing the quirk, a consequence of pushing a $787 billion, 400-page bill through Congress and into law in three weeks.
And for people hurt by the change, there's no way around it.
"Everybody tells you, 'Yeah, I can understand why you're frustrated. It doesn't sound right.' But nobody knows where to go," said Mark Milota, 47, of Marietta, Ga., who was laid off in November from his job at a medical billing company.
The Georgia Department of Human Resources explained in a letter to him last month that, because of the stimulus, he was ineligible for food stamps. He now makes $1,538 a month — $21 too much for a family of two to qualify.
"We have to pay him that $25 a week," said Brenda Brown, assistant commissioner at the Georgia Department of Labor. "And he doesn't have the option not to accept it."
Milota said he was told that, without the stimulus money, he would have received about $300 a month in food stamps.
"I'm doing things I've never done before: I'm going to food pantries. I've gone to places for assistance on bills," Milota said. "Some bills are just not being paid. I'm three months behind on my mortgage."
Unemployment benefits vary by state and the income cap for food stamps also varies based on family size, so it's impossible to say for certain how many people are hurt by the change. Government officials believe it is only a small fraction of the record 6.8 million people on unemployment. Many more people will benefit from a stimulus law that expanded unemployment and food stamp benefits.
"We've gotten some questions about this. Not tons and tons, but we have been getting questions about this," said Jean Daniel, a spokeswoman for the Department of Agriculture, which overseas the food stamp program now known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
When cases like Milota's began popping up in Iowa recently, officials called Washington, asking what to do.
"We were told we were interpreting the food stamp regulations correctly," said Roger Munns, spokesman for the Iowa Department of Human Services. "Once you're over the income limit, regardless of the reason, you're no longer eligible."
Once handed out as paper vouchers, food stamps are now delivered to people near the poverty level through debit cards that they can use to buy food. A record 32.5 million people participate in the program. Once the government determines someone is eligible, officials use a formula to calculate the monthly benefit, which ranges from $16 to $588. The average is about $111.
Because those close to the income limit tend to get less money in food stamps, Munns said most people who are bumped out of the program by the extra $100 in unemployment benefits each month will break even or fare just slightly better. But the stimulus checks were intended to ease the effects of the recession, not simply cancel out another government assistance program.
Lawmakers crafting the stimulus knew this would become a problem, said Stacy Dean, director of food assistance policy at Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a liberal think tank. They could have headed it off by raising the income tax or declaring that the $25 stimulus checks would not affect food stamp eligibility. Both were expensive options that could have forced states to reprogram their computer systems.
But more importantly, hashing out those details would have taken time.
"People were aware of this but, as you recall, the stimulus was moving along and then it was passed in about a day," Dean said. "There was not a lot of policy discussion on this."
Milota said he had never been on food stamps before and resisted applying for months, believing he would find a job. But that has proved difficult. When he applied for a customer service job recently, he said the company told him there were 1,000 applicants.
The stimulus law was intended not just as a jolt to the economy but also to ease the burden on people in Milota's situation. Besides unemployment benefits, the law also increased food stamp benefits — just not the income cap.
"I truly believe when it came out, they felt it was to help people, and they never wanted to hurt people," said Milota, who says he leans Republican but voted for Obama.
Officials in Washington say they're aware of stories like this. Changing things, however, requires changing the law. States could do this one by one, or Congress could do so.
"This is not something the president or this agency could do independently," Daniel, the Agriculture Department spokeswoman, said.


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Roland Boni shows a level of craftsmanship that speaks to his years of work in several construction trades. Roland is best known for his attention to detail and pioneering a technique he calls "angle firing" which gives the appearance of glaze moving against gravity. The Cultural Arts Center in Winter Haven, Florida is where he got his start in clay. He spent three years there in the mid-seventies learning, and eventually teaching throwing before returning to PA to start a family. Although finding opportunities to make work occasionally it wasn't until 2006 that Roland made a purposeful return to pottery when his brother Rick Boni received a grant from the state to build a pottery studio at Appalachian Arts. Roland's son, Geno, also started working there after high school, finding a passion for clay he attended Edinboro University for ceramics. In 2009, Geno left Edinboro to partner with Roland to found Mudslide Pottery as a father and son studio. Since opening their doors in 2010 they have participated in some of the best juried art shows in the state, taught classes in throwing and glazing, and received awards for their work.
Geno Boni creates work that showcases his passion for high-fire reduction glazes. Known for his vibrant palette of glazes that often run and drip down the vessel walls. Geno was born and raised in Pennsylvania with artists on both sides of his family. He was exposed to pottery at an early age in his father's small hobby studio, but it wasn't until after high school that Geno found his love for clay. He began working part time in the clay studio at Appalachian Arts in 2006, a multi-discipline arts facility owned by his uncle Rick Boni. Geno's father Roland also started throwing and teaching classes part time at Appalachian Arts during this time. Wanting to pursue a career in ceramics Geno attended Edinboro University where he became vice-president of the Clay Club, and was hired by the head of the department to mix clay and tutor students in throwing within a year. In 2009, Geno left Edinboro University to partner with Roland to found Mudslide Pottery as a father and son studio. Since opening their doors in 2010 they have attended some of the best juried art shows in the state, taught classes in throwing and glazing, and received awards for their work.
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Written in 365 Parts: 92: The Road to Nowhere
Wrote in 365 Parts
Hooper had brought the hover vehicle to a slow descent making sure that only the minimal number of sensors were used to land the craft. The computer seemed to be sulking ever since they had tuned down the systems. The craft had a full autonomous mode with a military grade artificial intellect as a host system. It could easily fly itself and engage in some battlefield maneuvers. However as part of that it tended to consider the craft as one might consider a body. Right now it probably considered that Hooper had taped its eyebrows to its scrotum and asked it to do the macarena.
Hooper had been following the faint trace of the stealth suit via satellite for close to fourteen hours. The quarry was uber cautious, as was Hooper.
After leaving the mortuary facility the quarry had driven a mad trail across several levels, sectors, and cross routes of the city. Looping around and back upon themselves in a seemingly random pattern that would allow them to monitor vehicles. they were checking for pursuit and evading auto-detection algorithms of traffic cameras. Hooper had watched in bored fascination. They were good. They had changed vehicles twelve times. They had used an intelligent random generator that still allowed them to monitor their own route. They also had some significant support from an upper city gang. No doubt paid for their services but worth noting for future observation.
Hooper had taken the time to nap, using a sleep inducer with a close monitor tied to the vehicle artificial intellect to wake them if anything interesting development occurred. They had also made sure to stop and eat, using a good diner on one of the lower levels that also had showers. The shower was a sonic affair, no water and very little in the way of comfort. But it worked. They didn't smell like they had slept in a van which was the desired outcome.
The quarry had eventually determined they were not being followed. That is when they had driven to a despatch centre near the main commercial port. There they had driven the last of the vehicles into a shipping container. After a few moments a small knot of gangers had moved in and sealed up the container placing shipping bills upon it. Hooper had used a local scope while parked over a mile distant to watch them.
The gang left and forty minutes later the container was loaded onto a magnetic train for shipment. Hooper had let the train leave, the destination was easily determined. The train was headed for the mining centre almost on the other side of the world, and far to the north of the city. It was on a desolate plain at over four thousand metres altitude. Few went their except to make money in the mines.
Hooper had made sure to get well ahead of the train and into an extremely high orbit. The craft Hooper was using was fitted with stealth observation drones. These had been deployed and they monitored the train arriving and the container being unloaded and stacked with thousands of similar containers.
This facility was completely automatic. Dependent on the shipment designation, and who had paid for its storage, the container could easily sit there until the wind turned it into particles of dust. It was a great place to hide. After a short wait of thirty minutes, a figure left the container from the side door, and made sure to seal the door again with a mini-welding torch.
Hooper did not have a tracker on this figure, but that wasn't too much of an issue, not yet. Hooper watched as the figure fastened up an environment suit, then they unpacked a small hover scooter and headed out into the desert.
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Q: cloneNode in internet explorer While executing the following code IE throws the error -- Object doesn't support this property or method -- referring to the cloneNode() method.  'i' is the loop counter, source and dest are both HTML select elements.
dest.options[dest.options.length] = source.options[i].cloneNode( true );

FF and Chrome behave as expected.  Any ideas on how to get IE to execute cloneNode()?  The IE 8 debugger shows source.options[i] does have a cloneNode() method.
Thanks.

A: IE requires the
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construct.
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or
cloneNode()

will fail.  Of course, all options work as expected in a proper web browser.

A: Actually, cloneNode isn't throwing any error.  Break your code down into smaller chunks to properly identify the source of the error:
var origOpt = source.options[i];
var clonedOpt = origOpt.cloneNode( true );  // no error here
var destOptLength = dest.options.length;
dest.options[destOptLength] = clonedOpt;    // error!
dest.options.add(clonedOpt);                // this errors too!

dest.appendChild(clonedOpt);                // but this works!

Or, putting it back the way you had it, all on one line:
dest.appendChild(source.options[i].cloneNode( true ));

A: I've found this post useful: IE's cloneNode doesn't actually clone!

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Dynamic Select:

You need to insert the select into the document,
and the option into the select,
before IE grants the options any attributes.
This bit creates a select element and 10 options,
and then clones and appends the first option to the end.

It works in most browsers.

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hi nila, great posting. although i'm indonesian i barely know the new and popular places to go to in jakarta. now i know and have ideas where to take my husband on our next visit. thanks.
Jakarta sounds an exciting place to visit . I hear the traffic is horrendous we can't have everything purrfect, I guess ! have to get there one day!
Nice review but i cannot see your photo clearly, you should use better lighting if possible..
@ Keats: hi sunshine girl ;)! traffic in jakarta is terrible, indeed, during the weekdays and rush hours. But, it's fine in the weekend. If you could, try to visit Jakarta when it's a long weekend in Indonesia… because most people go on holidays, that makes the streets completely EMPTY!!! yayyyy!!!
come and visit my city, sunshine girl!


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Will Your Leadership Pass the Zelensky Test?
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by Barry Lenson
Has there ever been a leader who was the equal of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky?
Chances are that there have been leaders as great as he is. Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln, Nelson Mandela, and a handful of others come to mind. But somehow Zelensky seems different. Is that because we don't watch Churchill, Lincoln and other great historical leaders on television?
We see Zelensky every day, and what we see, every day, tells us over and over again that he is an extraordinary leader.
What Makes Zelensky Such a Great Leader?
It has often been said that leaders are ordinary people who are put in circumstances that require them to do extraordinary things. Is that true of Volodymyr Zelensky?
We don't know for sure. Perhaps we will need to wait years and years, until we are able to look at what he has done from the perspective of history. But however we will come to appreciate his achievements in the future, we can already understand some of the extraordinary leadership principles he is using to inspire and lead the people of his country.
He Is Willing to Die for His People and His Country
Few people are required to put their lives on the line for the people they lead and love. Yet Zelensky is. He has said to the Russian invaders, "Here I am, you know where to find me, you can come kill me."
He Doesn't Ask People to Do Things He Won't Do
He goes into the street to see the citizens of Ukraine and helps carry their burdens and literally walks with them.
He Has Reinvented Himself to Confront Great Challenges
Did you know that Zelensky was an actor and a comedian before he entered politics? If you watch him star in the Ukrainian television show "Servant of the People," available streaming, you will discover that he is actually a very accomplished comedian. But he is not a comedian now. He is the real deal – a world leader of the kind we have not seen in some time.
He Has Transcended Divisions
Volodymyr Zelensky is of Jewish heritage. Only about 0.3% of Ukrainians are Jewish, and about 70% are Ukrainian Orthodox Christians. Yet did he say, "I cannot lead the people of my country, I am in a minority?" No. He saw his nation's need and he met it courageously and selflessly, without hesitation.
So, Are Leaders Ordinary People Who Do Extraordinary Things?
It could be. But by any definition or standards, Volodymyr Zelensky is an extraordinary leader. We can only aspire to his kind of leadership. And we pray that God will watch over him and protect him in the perilous days ahead. May God protect his family and the people of Ukraine too.
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JAY-Z marks 50th birthday by restoring back catalog to Spotify
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Jay-Z thrilled fans on Wednesday (December 4, 2019) as he marked his 50th birthday by restoring his entire back catalog to Spotify.
The rap icon had previously removed the majority of his work after launching his own Spotify rival, Tidal, back in 2014.
While the star left Reasonable Doubt, In My Lifetime, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2…Hard Knock Life, along with his 2004 album with Linkin Park, Collision Course, he has since re-uploaded seminal records like American Gangster, Watch The Throne and The Black Album for fans to enjoy.
In a post on Twitter, Spotify's official page shared: "Happy birthday, Hov. Welcome back to Spotify".
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Soon after the rapper's return to the platform was announced, fans took to Twitter to share their delight at being able to listen to their favorite artist once again.
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Leave a comment Posted on April 10, 2018 April 10, 2018 ANTI TRAFFICKING, ENVIRONMENT, FIGHT SLAVERY, GENDER, HUMAN RIGHTS, HUMAN SMUGGLING, human trafficking india, labour trafficking, SEX ABUSE, SEX RATIO, SEXUAL HARRASMENT, SHAKTI VAHINI, SUPREME COURT, SURVIVORS, TRAFFICKING, Uncategorized, VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
Manipur police arrest three Rohingyas at Indo-Myanmar border
The two man (Rohingiya) confessed to have earlier involved in trafficking of Rohingiya girls with the help of a local man from Imphal West district to different parts of the world including India, added the SP.
The arrested individuals are believed to have entered into India from Bangladesh through Tripura.
A joint team of Manipur police and CID, arrested three Rohingyas including a woman from Indo-Myanmar border town of Moreh, Tengnoupal district on Sunday. The Rohingyas were rounded up by the joint team on Saturday night around 8.30 pm from Muslim Basti ward no. 5 in Moreh, while taking refuge in the house of a local resident. The arrested Rohingyas hail from Baguna, the crisis ridden Rakhine state of Myanmar. The two arrested men have been identified as Md Saifullah, 34 and Md Salam, 25 while the woman is identified as Toiba Haut alias Nargis, 20, daughter of Abu Subiya.
"Following reliable information that some Rohingyas from Myanmar are staying at Muslim Basti with trafficked girls from foreign country to engage them in prostitution by inducement and force, the combined team rushed to the said area under my supervision and picked up two Rohingiya along with a woman", said Dr S Ibomcha Singh, Superintendent of Police Tengnoupal district.
As per the finding of preliminary investigation, it has been established that Toiba Hatu was a victim of human trafficking while the two male associates were the traffickers, said the SP. The two man (Rohingiya) confessed to have earlier involved in trafficking of Rohingiya girls with the help of a local man from Imphal West district to different parts of the world including India, added the SP.
Md Saifullah, reportedly possessed an Adhaar card and a card issued by United Nation High Commissioners for Refugees but Salam and Toiba Haitu did not possessed any valid documents. Despite having valid document, Saifullah was booked under trafficking act along with Salam while the woman was booked under Foreigners act for not possessing any valid documents.
The three arrested individuals are believed to have entered into India from Bangladesh through Tripura. Since the Rohingiya refugee crisis erupted in Myanmar, the border area of Manipur have been put on alert particularly at Indo-Myanmar border Moreh and Manipur-Assam border.
The Manipur police up till now have arrested 6 Rohingiyas from Moreh border town alone. The last arrest was made on March 22, wherein three Rohingiya were arrested by a combined team. They are currently lodged in a jail in Imphal.
Leave a comment Posted on December 29, 2017 ANTI TRAFFICKING, BONDED LABOUR, Child Labour, CHILD RAPE, Child Rights, CHILD RIGHTS, Corprate Social Responsiblity, Domestic Violence, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, DOMESTIC WORKERS, FIGHT SLAVERY, GENDER, HONOR KILLINGS, HUMAN RIGHTS, HUMAN SMUGGLING, human trafficking india, Juvenile Justice, JUVENILE JUSTICE, labour trafficking, Maternal Health, Missing Children, Organ Trade, Prostitution, REHABILITATION OF SEX WORKERS, SAARC TRAFFICKING, SEX ABUSE, SEX RATIO, SEX RATIO, SEX RATIO, SEXUAL HARRASMENT, SHAKTI VAHINI, SUPREME COURT, SURVIVORS, TRAFFICKING, Uncategorized, VIDEOS TRAFFICKING INDIA, VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN, womens issues
New anti-trafficking law soon: Life term for repeat offenders
The bill has proposed 10-year punishment for those engaging in "aggravated forms of trafficking". For repeat offenders, it suggests imprisonment for life. The bill has also proposed the establishment of a national anti-trafficking bureau.
The government is set to introduce a law to guard against human trafficking, proposing a 10-year punishment for those engaging in "aggravated forms of trafficking" while seeking life imprisonment for repeat offenders.
A bill to identify various forms of trafficking, including for the purposes of bonded labour, sexual exploitation, pornography, removal of organs and begging, has proposed severe punishment for those engaging in the heinous crime.
The Trafficking of Persons (Prevention, Protection and Rehabilitation) Bill 2017, initiated by the Women & Child Development Ministry, is currently with a Group of Ministers (GoM) that will take a final view on the matter, official sources told TOI.
The bill proposes the establishment of a national anti-trafficking bureau, which shall be entrusted with the gamut of issues aimed at controlling and tackling the menace under various forms. These include coordination, monitoring and surveillance of illegal movement of persons and their prevention. The bureau will also be entrusted with increasing cooperation and coordination with authorities concerned and organisations in foreign countries for strengthening operational and long-term intelligence for investigation of trafficking cases, and driving in mutual legal assistance.
Listing out the 'aggravated forms of trafficking', the bill speaks about offences such as forced labour, or bonded labour, by using violence, intimidation, inducement, promise of payment of money, deception or coercion. Also, it mentions trafficking after administering any narcotic drug or psychotropic substance or alcohol, or for the purpose of marriage or under the pretext of marriage.
The aggravated form also includes trafficking for the purpose of begging or forcing those who are mentally ill or are pregnant. "Whoever commits the offence of aggravated form of trafficking of a person shall be punished with rigorous imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than 10 years, but which may extend to life imprisonment and shall be liable to fine that shall not be less than Rs 1 lakh," the bill proposes.
For repeat offenders, it suggests imprisonment for life "which shall mean imprisonment for the remainder of that person's natural life", apart from a fine that will not be less than Rs 2 lakh.
As per data released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), human trafficking numbers rose by almost 20% in 2016 against the previous year. NCRBsaid there were 8,132 human trafficking cases last year against 6,877 in 2015, with the highest number of cases reported in West Bengal (44% of cases), followed by Rajasthan (17%).
Of the 15,379 victims who were caught in trafficking, 10,150 were female and 5,229 males. NCRB said the purpose of trafficking included forced labour; sexual exploitation for prostitution; other forms of sexual exploitation; domestic servitude; forced marriage; child pornography; begging; drug peddling; and removal of organs. It is believed that the numbers recorded by NCRB are a far cry to actual incidences of trafficking as many cases went unreported with many people still unaware of the crime or lacking confidence to seek police help.
For those engaging in 'buying or selling' a person, the bill proposes rigorous imprisonment for a term not less than seven years which can be extended to 10 years with a fine upwards of Rs 1 lakh. The bill also seeks punishment for those engaging in trafficking with the help of media, including print, internet, digital or electronic. It stipulates a punishment of not less than seven years which can go up to 10 years and a fine not less than Rs 1 lakh.
"Whoever distributes or sells or stores, in any form in any electronic or printed form showing incidence of sexual exploitation, sexual assault or rape for the purpose of extortion or for coercion of the victim or his/her family members, or for unlawful gain, shall be punished with rigorous imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than three years but may extend to seven years."
Apart from the national bureau, the bill also aims at having state-level anti-trafficking officers who shall also provide relief and rehabilitation services through district units and other civil-society organisations.
The bill also spells out measures towards relief and rehabilitation for the victims of trafficking, and seeks the formation of a committee for this purpose. The committee is proposed to be headed by the women & child development secretary and would have members from the ministries of home; external affairs; labour and employment; social justice and empowerment; panchayati raj; and heath and family welfare.
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Two BJP States contemplate death penalty for rape; face opposition
Reported in Business Standard
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government in Madhya Pradesh has passed a Bill in its Assembly to award capital punishment to those found guilty of raping children below the age of 12. The Rajasthan government, too, was contemplating of bringing a similar Bill. Currently, the maximum punishment under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) for rape convicts is life imprisonment. The state government has also suggested that the minimum punishment for rape be kept 14 years, and 20 years in case of gang rape.
The Bill — Dand Vidhi (Madhya Pradesh Sanshodhan) Vidheyak, 2017 — is awaiting the President's assent.
The civil society said awarding death punishment would barely be a deterrent. "This is a knee-jerk reaction from the state government," said Ravi Kant, a Supreme Court lawyer and child rights activist. "Rapists would now kill victims to hide their identities. The state government should instead invest in policing and scientific techniques of investigation. Most accused get away scot-free because of shoddy investigation and victims turning hostile because of threats."
The Madhya Pradesh government brought the Bill following the rape of a teenager in Bhopal. The girl was returning from her coaching class when four men allegedly abducted and raped her. The state reported the most number of rapes in 2016. According to the National Crime Records Bureau, the state reported 4,882 rapes cases, followed by Uttar Pradesh with 4,816 cases and Maharashtra with 4,189 cases. Madhya Pradesh was also among the states that reported the maximum number of cases for crimes against children. Uttar Pradesh topped this list with 15.3 per cent of cases, followed by Maharashtra at 13.6 per cent and Madhya Pradesh at 13.1 per cent.
The Justice J S Verma Committee, which was set up to recommend amendments to the Criminal Law for speedy trial and enhanced punishment of criminals accused of committing sexual assault against women, had also suggested against imposing the death penalty. The committee was set up following public demand for death punishment in the aftermath of the Nirbhaya case in Delhi in 2012.
"The committee rejected the proposal for chemical castration as it fails to treat the social foundations of rape. It opined that death penalty should not be awarded for the offence of rape as there was considerable evidence that death penalty was not a deterrence to serious crimes. It recommended life imprisonment for rape," said the summary of the report available on the website of PRS Legislative Research, a not-for-profit organisation.
After the Verma Committee report, the government amended the IPC through the Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 2013, popularly known as the anti-rape Bill. It introduced several provisions, including Section 376A, which allowed for death penalty to be imposed in cases where rape led to the death of the victim, or left the victim in a persistent vegetative state. The maximum punishment was raised to life imprisonment in case of a non-death. Two years later, the Law Commission recommended abolition of death penalty for all crimes except cases related to terrorism.
Madhya Pradesh, which is not bound either by the Law Commission report or the Justice Verma committee report, has proposed that death penalty should be given to those found guilty of raping children below the age of 12 years. "The Union government is finding it difficult to recommend the President to accept the state government Bill because of the divergent views. The matter has been referred to the Union Law ministry for its opinion," said an official.
Among the other changes, the Madhya Pradesh government has also passed a provision for a three-year jail term for stalking.
Rajasthan Home Minister Gulab Chand Kataria told reporters that the state government was currently reviewing the Madhya Pradesh Bill and intends to bring its own Bill in the budget session.
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Human trafficking worry for Sundargarh
Published in The Telegraph
Rourkela : The return of two married women, aged 24 and 36, from Saudi Arabia has brought women's trafficking in the district to the fore again.
"Our study suggests that the situation is not encouraging," said Rajendra Behera, chief co-ordinator of Pragati, which works for the rescue of trafficked women.
"We did an exhaustive study in 11 blocks out of 17 in the district and concluded that more than 13,000 women from different age groups are missing," he said. Between 43,000 and 44,000 women across age groups have been trafficked between 2002-14 from the district, the study showed.
The women returned home on Sunday and narrated their ordeal. The Tarkera residents claimed that a neighbour and his family members had sold them off in Saudi Arabia for a hefty sum. Their employers kept them in confinement and physically and mentally abused them, the duo alleged.
Abul Kalam Azad of Childline at Bisra had rescued a 14-year-old Bangladeshi girl two years ago and returned her to her parents. He said: "These women are sexually abused both by the middleman and the employer."
He said there was also an increase in the number of unwed mothers. Citing statistics, he said: "In the past six months, I have received 63 unwanted children either at my doorstep or from different places." Most of them were found in remote jungle or far-off areas, said Azad. He found that most of these children belonged to those women who had been trafficked.
"The maximum trafficking takes place between the 14-18 and 19-25 age groups at 41 and 38 per cent respectively," said Behera. His study also revealed that apart from poverty and the search for greener pastures, the glamour of bigger cities also lured many women into the traffickers' traps.
Sundargarh district superintendent of police Pinaki Mishra agreed with Behera.
Most of the traffickers are also known to the women. They are either relatives or neighbours. "And when the girl does not return for a long time, the relative goes missing," said Behera.
Mishra admitted that despite human trafficking being a major problem in the district, inadequate manpower forced police actions to go for preventive drive than going on the offensive. "We have written to the government for help with more manpower," he said.
He also plans awareness drives, and creating a data bank of the blocks affected
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No trace of Khunti's missing children
A survey by EDISS in Karra village reveals that there are at least 20 cases where a child has been missing for over 10 years
Geeta Kumari (name changed) has not returned home in the past 10 years. A resident of a village in Karrablock of Khunti district, Geeta was only 12-year-old when she 'disappeared'. Her parents have not been able to trace her. Shila Kumari (name changed) was trafficked to Delhi by a woman for domestic work when she was 11-year-old.
It's been over three years now and her parents have no idea where she is. These are just two of over 20 such cases, in which children went missing from various villages of Karra block and have still not been traced.
These villages are situated in interior, forested region and the nearest Karra police station is located 13km away. Social activists of a non-government organisation, Entrepreneurship Development Institute of Social Services (EDISS), conducted a survey in Karra block for around two months in which they came across over 20 such cases of missing children, some of whom have been missing for over 10 years.
Ravi Kumar of EDISS, who was a part of the survey team, said, "The parents of these children are too scared of the traffickers to approach the police.
It took us over a month to convince some of the parents to approach the police station. Parents of eight missing children finally agreed and an FIR was registered in the Khunti Anti Human Trafficking Unit (AHTU)." Khunti AHTU in-charge Meera Singh said, "These are all cases of human trafficking. FIRs have been lodged and we are probing into the matter." Baidnath Kumar, another activist who was also a part of the survey team, said that names of two traffickers —Shiva and Kunjal Mahato —have come to light during their probe. "Kunjal Mahato is an aide of the trafficking kingpin Pannalal Mahato.
These traffickers are learnt to have been threatening the villagers whenever they try enquiring about their children." Mother of a trafficked girl who had approached Shiva to ask about her daughter was not just threatened but also beaten up, leading to a fractured arm. Ravi Kumar said he too also threatened by the traffickers. "When I initially started visiting the villages, Shiva and another person, Budhni Munda, threatened me to stop going there. I am planning to file a complaint against them," Ravi said.
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NIA likely to investigate human trafficking cases
PUBLISHED IN ECONOMIC TIMES
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) could be empowered to investigate cases of human trafficking, in what seems to be a breakthrough in the nearly year-long consultations among various stakeholders, including the home ministry and the ministry of women and child development.
Sources say the additional responsibility for the National Investigation Agency (NIA) would be part of the proposed anti-human trafficking law unveiled by Maneka Gandhi last year.
The move will also require amending the law that gave birth to the counter-terrorism agency — the National Investigation Act, 2008.
The Draft Trafficking of Persons (Prevention, Protection and Rehabilitation) Bill, 2016, proposed setting up a National Bureau on Trafficking in Person for "prevention, investigation of the trafficking of persons cases and protection of the victims of trafficking" — a role which could be performed by the NIA, sources said.
"The ministry of home affairs (MHA) wanted NIA to investigate trafficking and we have agreed to that. MHA has also given its approval for the draft Bill. After we get a green flag from Prime Minister's Office, a Cabinet note will be circulated," according to a top official of the ministry of women and child development.
Another official said "a cell within NIA" could be probing human trafficking cases.
After the Union Cabinet gives its approval, the draft bill will be tabled before Parliament.
"Traffickers enjoy immunity because local police agencies are not able to probe inter-state or cross-border crimes. We require a nodal agency as 80-90 per cent of trafficking cases span across various states," said Ravi Kant, Supreme Court Advocate & President of NGO Shakti Vahini, explaining why activists have been seeking a central body to probe human trade.
Government officials say to empower the NIA to investigate trafficking cases the National Investigation Act, 2008, will have to be amended.
The NIA was set up by the previous UPA government in 2009 to probe terrorist activities in the aftermath of the 2008 Mumbai attacks, which killed 166 people.
As per the National Investigation Act, the anti-terror body is empowered to probe offences under eight specified laws, including the Atomic Energy Act 1962, the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act 1967, and the Anti-Hijacking Act 1982.
The proposed anti-human trafficking legislation will be independent of the existing law on trafficking in relation to prostitution — Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956 — while a section of the civil society has sought an umbrella law.
The draft law divides offences into "trafficking" and "aggravated trafficking".
The punishment for offences in the former category is rigorous imprisonment between 7 and 10 years and a fine of not less than Rs 1 lakh, while aggravated forms of trafficking will invite a jail term of between 10 years and life imprisonment and a fine of not less than Rs 5 lakh.
Aggravated trafficking will include trafficking of children, transgenders, differently-abled, pregnant women and those which involve use of drugs and alcohol.
There is also a provision for a national committee as well as a central fund for the relief and rehabilitation services for the victims.
HUMAN TRAFFICKING INDIA Shakti Vahini
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Two alleged human traffickers arrested
New Delhi, Nov 15 (PTI) Two men, carrying a cash reward of Rs 50,000 each on their head for allegedly running a human trafficking syndicate, were arrested, police said today.
Two men, carrying a cash reward of Rs 50,000 each on their head for allegedly running a human trafficking syndicate, were arrested, police said today.
In November 2013, a human trafficking racket was busted in central Delhi's Kamla Market and eight suspected pimps from the GB Road, were held, they said.
During investigation, it was revealed that the racket was being run by Saidulla Ali Gyan (43) and Atiyar Sheikh (33), the police said.
Efforts were made to arrest them but in vain, they said, adding a cash reward of Rs 50,000 each was declared on their arrest.
Last month, it was learnt that the two accused were residing in Kolkata, West Bengal, and continuing their human trafficking business from there, P S Kushwah, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Special Cell), said.
Sources were deployed in Kolkata and nearby districts to track them, he said.
On November 14, Gyan and Sheikh were nabbed from the Sealdah railway station, Kolkata, the DCP said.
Gyan was engaged in the human trafficking business for the last 10 years and used to lure poor people on the pretext of getting them a job and sending them to Delhi with the help of Sheikh, he said.


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Now, that a lot of famous English writers use this construction might be understandable, but that the OED Additions uses this redundancy to define some terms is beyond my comprehension unless it is an accepted redundancy.

A: In general, actual fact would be redundant.  However, there may be limited situations where its use might be justified for emphasis or contrast.  Example:

Instead of believing the facts on the Internet about vaccination, you should consult medical journals for the actual facts.

"Facts on the Internet" is being used sarcastically there to mean "myths".

A: The main definition of the word "actual" is "real" or "up-to-date" -- See "actualize" to understand this meaning better. So an "actual fact" is a real, up-to-date fact. Therefore no redundancy. Compare with this example: "No. He is my step-father. My actual father lives in France."


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if it takes 726 watts of power to move a mass 36 meters in 14 seeconds, what is the mass?
i really need like, step by step help please? asap.
thanks, michelle .
physics - bobpursley, Saturday, November 20, 2010 at 4:06pm
power= work/time= mass*g*distance/time
mass= power*time/distance*g
physics - michelle quendarsv, Saturday, November 20, 2010 at 4:24pm
so... would it be like,
726 x 14 / 36 ?
no, what happened to g (9.8m/s^2) in the denominator?
but where did you get 9.8m/s2?
physics - Damon, Saturday, November 20, 2010 at 7:27pm
He is assuming that you are moving the mass up against gravity. g = 9.8 m/s^2
then force up = m g = 9.8 m
If you are moving it horizontally and there is no friction and it is stopped at the start, that is another problem entirely.
It has zero kinetic energy at the start and we need to find the KE at the end to find how much work is done.
we need the acceleration
36 = (1/2) a (14)^2
a = .367 m/s^2
v = a t = .367 *14 = 5.14
then (1/2) m (5.14)^2 = 726*14
However I suspect that the way bobpursley told you is what your teacher wants.
That's a lot of work...
umm, it says nothing about "moving up against gravity"
but if you say so... thanks, i guess.
can you give me another example with this question
-What is the mass of an object if it took 270 J of work to move it 15 meters?
9.8 is g
If moving it up then
F = m g
F * distance = work = 15 m (9.8) in Joules
270 = 15 * m * 9.8
m = 270 / (15*9.8)
Okay, thank you...
I have another question
If an object has a mass of 47 kg and it is moved 27 meters in 60 seconds, how much power was used?
(also, would this also include the 9.8 from g?)
michelle quendarsv
Michelle: You need a book I know of. Go to any college bookstore, or BarnesNoble, and take a look at Schaum's Outline series, Physics. There are a number of titles in this series, I like the Physics for Scientists and Engineers, but that may be a bit mathematical for you, so College Physics may be more to your liking. But look at them. They are inexpensive, and have about 2000 solved problems in them, organized by units.
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Eugeniusz Iwanicki [eugeňiuš ivaňicki] (18. září 1933 Domaradzkie u Ňasviže, Druhá Polská republika, nyní Bělorusko – 10. prosince 2020) byl polský spisovatel, satirik.

Biografie
Studoval Lékařskou akademii v Lodži a ruskou filologii ve Varšavě, ale ani jednu školu nedokončil. Pracoval postupně ve vězeňské nemocnici v Sieradzi, v hygienické stanici v Łasku a polepšovně v Ignacewi jako hygienik. Přitom psal do různých periodik. Později pracoval v redakcích tisku, mj. v lodžském oddělení Trybuna Ludu.

V letech 1940–1946 byl spolu s matkou a později i otcem (po jeho návratu ze Soloveckých ostrovů) ve vyhnanství v severním Kazachstánu, což ovlivnilo i jeho pozdější tvorbu. Ve vyhnanství zapomněl polsky, jazyk se musel učit znovu po návratu do Polska po válce, kdy se celá rodina usadila ve městě Łask nedaleko Lodže. Kromě povídek a básní psal také aforismy.

Publikoval pod řadou pseudonymů: dr Jan Skromny, Eugeniusz Łaski, EUGI, Gene Vanick, Jakub i Jarosław Łascy, Jarosław Łaski, Michał Sószczewicz, Paweł Mokros.

Dílo
 Zmowa obojętnych, Spiknutí lhostejných – 1969
 Powódź w dolinie psów, Povodeň v údolí psů – 1970, sbírka povídek
 Łask, turistický průvodce – 1970
 Powrót żurawi, Návrat jeřábů – 1971
 Dzień pierwszy i następny, Den první a následující – 1972
 Deszczowy sezon, Dešťová sezóna – 1973
 Labirynt, Labyrint – 1978
 Więcej niż przyjaźń, Více než přátelství – 1980
 Miałem dobrego pana, Měl jsem dobrého pána – 1980
 Wyprawa po białe runo, Výprava za bílým rounem – 1982
 Anegdoty o przesławnym mieście Łasku, Historky o přeslavném městě Łasku – 1982
 Władca zielonych ogrodów, Pán zelených zahrad – 1984
 Klasztor dla ateistów albo rozważania Pana T., Klášter pro ateisty aneb Úvahy pana T. – 1984
 Podróż do krainy motyli, Pouť do krajiny motýlů – 1986 (pro děti)
 Kubuś i słowik, Kubík a slavík – 1986 (pro děti)
 Wróg towarzysza Stalina. Wspomnienia z Kazachstanu 1940–1946 – 1990, česky Nepřítel soudruha Stalina. Vzpomínky z Kazachstánu 1940–1946 – 2012,
 Proces Szatana?, Satanův proces? – 1990
 Kat i ofiara czyli porachunki mafii, Kat a oběť neboli účty mafie – 1991
 Nokturny jesienne, Podzimní nokturna – 1998, básnická sbírka
 Mój Łask 1946, Můj Łask 1946 – 2004

Odkazy

Externí odkazy

 Eugeniusz Iwanicki

Polští spisovatelé
Aforisté
Narození v roce 1933
Narození 18. září
Úmrtí v roce 2020
Úmrtí 10. prosince
Muži

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Q: Assigning a 2D image for every face of a 3D cube: MATLAB I want to build a cube in MATLAB and assign different 2D images for its faces. I think this is called texture mapping. I've searched for such a code, but what I found is a code that is able to assign a single image to all of the cube faces, the code is available here (http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/32070-rgb-images-on-a-3d-cube). Here is the code,
cdata = flipdim( imread('peppers.png'), 1 );
cdatar = flipdim( cdata, 2 );

% bottom
surface([-1 1; -1 1], [-1 -1; 1 1], [-1 -1; -1 -1], ...
    'FaceColor', 'texturemap', 'CData', cdatar );
% top
surface([-1 1; -1 1], [-1 -1; 1 1], [1 1; 1 1], ...
    'FaceColor', 'texturemap', 'CData', cdata );

% font
surface([-1 1; -1 1], [-1 -1; -1 -1], [-1 -1; 1 1], ...
    'FaceColor', 'texturemap', 'CData', cdata );
% back
surface([-1 1; -1 1], [1 1; 1 1], [-1 -1; 1 1], ...
    'FaceColor', 'texturemap', 'CData', cdatar );

% left
surface([-1 -1; -1 -1], [-1 1; -1 1], [-1 -1; 1 1], ...
    'FaceColor', 'texturemap', 'CData', cdatar );
% right
surface([1 1; 1 1], [-1 1; -1 1], [-1 -1; 1 1], ...
    'FaceColor', 'texturemap', 'CData', cdata );

view(3);

I want to assign different pictures for different faces, I've tried to set different cdata variables as cdata1, cdata2,..., cdata6 each has a different image path, but I got an error indicating that cdata1 is not defined.
EDIT: Here is what I've tried using only 2 images as an example,
cdata1 = flipdim( imread('face1.jpg'), 1 );
cdatar1 = flipdim( cdata1, 2 );

cdata2 = flipdim( imread('interface 1.png'), 1);
cdatar2 = flipdim( cdata2, 2 );

% bottom
surface([-1 1; -1 1], [-1 -1; 1 1], [-1 -1; -1 -1], ...
    'FaceColor', 'texturemap', 'CData1', cdatar1 );
% top
surface([-1 1; -1 1], [-1 -1; 1 1], [1 1; 1 1], ...
    'FaceColor', 'texturemap', 'CData2', cdata2 );

% font
surface([-1 1; -1 1], [-1 -1; -1 -1], [-1 -1; 1 1], ...
    'FaceColor', 'texturemap', 'CData1', cdata1 );
% back
surface([-1 1; -1 1], [1 1; 1 1], [-1 -1; 1 1], ...
    'FaceColor', 'texturemap', 'CData2', cdatar2 );

% left
surface([-1 -1; -1 -1], [-1 1; -1 1], [-1 -1; 1 1], ...
    'FaceColor', 'texturemap', 'CData1', cdatar2 );
% right
surface([1 1; 1 1], [-1 1; -1 1], [-1 -1; 1 1], ...
    'FaceColor', 'texturemap', 'CData1', cdata1 );

view(3);

The code above yields an error saying that CData1 is not defined.
Can anyone tell me how to get the above code capable of assigning different images to different faces of the cube?
Thanks.

A: It should be straightforward!
cdata1 = flipdim( imread('peppers.png'), 1 );
cdata2 = rgb2gray(flipdim( imread('peppers.png'), 1 ));

It seems that you just did not create the variables with the correct name (cdata1, cdata2, cdata3 ,...)
Additionally:
the name of the property you wan to set in each of the surface calls does not change. You always want to set CData to something. There is no property in surface called CData1 as there is no property called PutImageHere ! replace all the calls with 'CData' as in:
surface([1 1; 1 1], [-1 1; -1 1], [-1 -1; 1 1], ...
    'FaceColor', 'texturemap', 'CData', yourvariablename);
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So Suddenly Autumn
Artpil / October 13, 2019
The Fall season is upon us. Foliage, and in some parts, already snow. ARTPIL is making its rounds, currently posted in Lille, France, once European Capital of Culture, home of the recently inaugurated Institut pour la Photographie, and where we exhibited 30 Under 30 Women Photographers with Maison Photo.
We just launched our supplement section, Announcements, featuring brief news entries of events, exhibitions, and general announcements in the art world.
Welcome to the .102nd edition of Prescriptions. Here is our review of the week in the arts.
Sophia Al-Maria / Tate, Photo Project Native Informant
Art Now / Sophia Al-Maria
Drawing on personal heritage and fictional future projections, Sophia Al-Maria's protagonists reflect on the narratives and languages they have inherited as children of various colonial legacies. On view at Tate Britain through February 23, 2020.
Why Should I Hesitate
The title of William Kentridge's exhibition references the impact of individual action on history and works as a commentary on various shifting hegemonies of power politics, economies, language and the authority to narrate history. Through March 23, 2020 at Zeitz MOCAA.
Reiner Riedler / Relfektor
Vienna Art Book Fair #1
Last week featured over 150 exhibitors from 18 countries, including Printed Matter and MACK, the accompanying program including exhibitions, performances, book presentations, artists' talks, readings, and workshop visits during Vienna Art Book Fair at Expositur Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7, Vienna.
Wendy Ewald / Judisches Museum Berlin
Berlin Photo Week 2019
Presented by EyeEm, Berlin Photo Week brings photography to life celebrates the love of photography, art, and technology, with events throughout the city. Magnum Photos, among its partners, exhibitors and speakers include Olaf Heine, Thomas Hoepker, and Evelyn Bencicova. Closes today (October 13, 2019), throughout Berlin.
This exhibition demonstrates Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's seminal importance in the development of the Expressionist movement in Germany, beginning with his years as a founding member of the artists' group Brücke. On view through January 13, 2020 at Neue Galerie, New York.
Laura Henno, 2018
This inaugural program reveals how photographers, artists, and others have appropriated the medium to record, question, and even glorify the banality of everyday life from the 19th century to the present day. Presenting the works of Laura Henno, Mary Ellen Mark, Diane Arbus, John Paul Evans, Thomas Struth, among others. Through December 15, 2019 at Institut pour la Photographie, Lille.
William Kentridge's exhibition Why Should I Hesitate on view at Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town; Sophia Al-Maria's film Beast Type Song as part of the Art Now series at Tate Britain, London; Olaf Heine and Evelyn Bencicova who participated at EyeEm presented Berlin Photo Week; Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's seminal works on view at Neue Galerie, New York; Berangere Fromont and her emotive and sometimes dark photography; Diane Arbus and Thomas Struth among several others as part of extraORDINAIRE at the inaugural exhibition at Institut pour la Photographie, Lille.
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Darkest Hour / Thomas Ralph
Britain, Exit Stage Right
It's never felt quite as isolating to live in the British Isles as it does in the wake of...
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Following the murder of George Floyd by police officers, demonstrations across the U.S. and beyond ignite against racism and police brutality, at times met with less than magnanimous authority.
Thomas Erben / Jan 9 – Feb 13, 2021
Thomas Erben Gallery is very excited to present Tehran based Newsha Tavakolian's For the Sake of Calmness (19min, 2020). The film depicts a bifurcated state of mind, removed from the real world while being hyper sensitively affected by it. (more…)
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MoMA Expansion
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Born in 1958 in Oran, Algeria Lise Sarfati lives and works between Paris and Los Angeles and is represented by Yossi Milo Gallery, NY, Rose Gallery, LA, La Galerie Particulière, Paris.
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Hehe… Some #fail s to learn from.
drinking the whole can (or 44-ounce barrel).
Gay rights people getting offended by the Snikers ad is stupid.
The ad was just making fun of men that run like girls…not their sexuality.
are not connected at all.


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Home- The goal was to get users to take the Metabolic power quiz. We developed anchored navigation to get the user there quicker as well as several jQuery elements to accentuate the different calls to action.
Quiz- We did all of the front end development and animation for the web app. This involved interactive dropdowns with real time dynamic input areas.


In a couple of months in Bari will take the second edition of 'our' WordCamp. The other day, as organizers, we begun spreading our Call for Speakers … and today I'm here to convince you to come and participate!
Choose freely the one you like!
Once the Call comes to its deadline, we gather and anonymize all the talks proposed – hey, did I tell you can submit more than one talk ? – and the organizers will have a list of titles and abstracts to vote. The talks with most preferences are officially invited to our Speakers' roaster … Organizers will not know who will talk about 'topic A' until the voting are over, so to avoind any kind of favoritism.
Of course we will also try the widest range of proposals, so we will not have 10 talks about plugin development since we're gonna try to have a thing for anyone coming.
So be creative and entertainign while proposing your talk. Sympathy is a good arrow to your bow.
It's with immense pleasure that we can finally announce to the world the forthcoming of the second edition of the WordCamp Bari.
We've launched the new website, with a refreshed graphic made by Antonio Trifirò and our "social media & marketing" team has begun the promotion on the various channels. Very shortly we'll launch also the Call for Speakers and the Call for Sponsors. Are you coming to say hello next May 17 and 18 ???
Contributing to the WordPress Project is a rewarding way to give back to the Community.
This Slide Deck (PDF) was created so that any Meetup can easily present ways to participate in Make WordPress.
Thanks to the Make WordPress team for sharing those slides! I'm gonna translate it in Italian ASAP.
On the Make WordPress.org website yesterday was posted the article Proposal to Increase the Maximum Ticket Price for WordCamps ☞ . There it was asked to the Community – you and me, in fact – what's the arguments in favor and disfavour of WordCamp tickets price raising.
To me the most important thing is: I think that pricing should not be "imposed".
Each organizing team has to study what are the goals of the Camp, decide how many people to handle and then calculate the event's ticket price as a ratio between costs of the basic services (ie venue) and visitors with an elementary division.
Like I've written above free food or drinks or after-party is nice to have, but not mandatory.
There are lots of cool things to have (swag, green room for speakers, free hotel room for them or free transport from air/stations to the venue) but not all of them are required – or will make me decide to come to your camp … it's mostly the quality of the topics of the Camp and, in second place, the fame of the organizing community and ease to reach the city / nation of the event.
My invite is to add YOUR comment to the topic, and help us to choose what's best to do… Community and Open Source means participation, and this time you won't be asked to code.
WOW! Just … WOW! It's been a huge event … and it makes me re-consider my opinions on the Italian desire to be the next host for the next "free spot" available in hosting this WordCamp Europe event.
Our friend Pascal Casier has realized an entire website gathering events from all over the Italian WordPress community under a single umbrella, complementary ti all other channels made by the community.
Among the many sections present in the website, there's a page devoted to show off the 'social' events of the current month … the URL si Calendario Eventi. Here you can find all the details of the announced meetup, WordCamps and various encounters officially sponsored but the community.
As you can see in the above screenshot when you visit the page you have the full month view, with everything listed in the particular date and, highlighted in yellow, the current day.
In the second part of the screen, instead, you have a map of the official communities over Italy, followed by an alphabetically sorted list of the groups [clicking on a city's name you are redirected to the relative Meetup group page].
Here you have also infos about the current number of the "meetup group subscribers" and, when present – as in the Bari's case below – the formal link to the announced event.
I think his initiative is excellent and commendable, and I invite those who have suggestions to contact him on the WordPress' international or Italian Slack channels.
Also, if you're into WordPress and are coming to Italy maybe you can plan to say Hi to a local group, and possibly share some of your knowledge and experiences with us. You will be welcomed for sure!
WordCamp Bari 2018 – get your ticket!
Things are moving fast in Bari (Italy) as May 11 (our Contributor Day) and May 12 (the Camp / conference day) approach.
During this week we'll announce the final roaster of Speakers (we will have two tracks) coming from all over Europe, while the tickets have been put on sale a couple of days ago!
Are you coming to enjoy two days of good people, great food and good time ?


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In late July, the day June and I returned to the mainland from our Newfoundland holiday, we stopped for a short visit with a couple now living on Cape Breton Island, at whose wedding I officiated just about exactly 18 years ago. They are one of the few couples I "married" with whom I keep a connection, for various reasons, but mostly because I really came to like both of them as really good people. But that visit triggered a memory that part of their wedding arrangements was needing to have the rehearsal two days before the wedding, because I had a commitment the night before. And that connected, a few weeks later, with today's Gospel.
That night I was a guest at a dinner hosted by the Primate and the Bishop of Toronto for the Provincial Secretaries of the Anglican Communion, who had been meeting in Toronto in the previous week. The Provincial Secretaries are the senior bureaucrats of the independent national Churches (the Provinces) that make up the Anglican Communion. While it may be the Primates that decide what should happen between and among the Provinces, it is the Secretaries that make it happen (or not happen).
The hot Canadian church issue of that time had made it onto the agenda; the lawsuits from the residential schools which would potentially seriously affect our Church's finances and our continuing participation and financial support of the "Partners in Mission" programme. This programme was and still is a major source of people and money for aid and development in developing World Churches, in partnership with Churches from our developed World. Canada has been a major supporter, both expert and financial, and this was threatened, with legal fees and anticipated settlements eating up our financial resources.
At that dinner, the Provincial Secretary of the Church of Uganda, George Tibeesigwa [The Rev. Canon Dr. George K. Tibeesigwa] gave a remarkable talk about what he called "cupboard love".
And there is a cookie in the cupboard, and the child knows the parent loves it, because every time the child wants a cookie, it is supplied from the cupboard. Until one day, the cupboard is empty. Then the child throws a tantrum, and whines and kicks and screams, and complains that the parent doesn't love it, because it is not getting a cookie. And course the parent, wanting the child to never feel unloved, makes sure there are always cookies in the cupboard. That's cupboard love, love based on the cupboard being full!
And then George said the love that other Provinces had for the Anglican Church of Canada was not cupboard love; that whether our cupboard was full, or empty, they were with us, would support us, pray for us, and do whatever was in their power to assist us. All the other Provincial Secretaries stood up, and shouted "Amen". There were only 7 Canadians in the room, and none of us had dry eyes, including the Primate and the Bishop.
It was a remarkable declaration of unconditional, Christian love. It was a moment of total grace!
We have (finally) returned to the Gospel of Mark, and again Jesus is in conflict with the scribes and Pharisees. The issue is washing hands before eating. By itself, of course, this is not a bad idea. In early Jewish religious law, washing, apart from hygiene, had become a symbol of internal cleanliness, a ritual washing from sin. At one time there was balance between the practical and ritual value of washing, but as often happens in religion, by Jesus' time the ritual had become all, and not to wash before eating was a major religious offence.
This had happened with countless other regulations. They originally had both a practical or moral value, and a ritual value. Following the regulations allowed the community to live in harmony and peace, and the regulations were followed to show love for God, who had given the law, and who loved the people. It was this balance which moved the Psalmist to sing, "In the way of your testimonies I delight, as much as in all riches." But by the time of Jesus, this joy in following the ritual law had turned into joyless nitpicking!
As always, Jesus cuts through to the heart of the matter. It is not what enters a person's mouth, nor whether it was eaten with washed or unwashed hands, that determines whether a person is clean or unclean. It is what comes out of a person, how a person acts, how a person lives, how a person internally relates to God, that matters. It is the heart, not the following of rules to the letter that justifies a person with God. The only thing that matters to Jesus is a person's intimate relationship with God, and if a person lives the righteousness that follows from that, all they do will be in accord with God's will.
But what of us? Certainly, we don't worry much about ritual cleanliness. The following of religious discipline is not high on most people's priorities. For that matter, one wonders how many of even the "Ten Commandments" inform our life. However, we are not free from ritual rules, with which we justify our lives as worthwhile and valid. Following these gives us a sense of righteousness. From our childhood, we have learned this "tradition of the elders"; from the beginnings of our lives we were taught this gospel of the world. It is followed to a greater or lesser degree by all members of our culture; it is taught by all the institutions which shape our lives; parents, schools, the media, and yes, even the churches. To a greater or lesser extend, all of us have learned "cupboard love"; we only think ourselves worthy, loved, if we can deliver out of our cupboard of performance. And this "tradition of our elders" robs us of the full life God intends for us.
So, here goes; see how many of the following apply to your "traditons".
"Be Perfect!" We convince ourselves that we are worthy only as long as we don't make a mistake. The road to success and happiness lies in our ability to do things perfectly. Not merely well – perfectly! In school, there is always a higher grade; for each there is a perfect weight; our fitness could always be better. There are books on the perfect career, the perfect marriage, the perfect parent, perfect health. There is the perfect Christian, and within that the perfect Anglican – or whatever. The underlying message is never "Be the best you can be"; and never, never, never, "You're Ok just as you are". Whatever happened to "I'm not Ok, and you're not Ok; but that's Ok!" Lot's of cookies stocked in our cupboard, and not much grace here, is there?
"Hurry Up!" Not only do we have to be perfect, we have to be fast. Just count how often you "hurry up" in a week. We have fast food, drive-through lube jobs, the one-minute manager and the 59 second employee. We want church over in under the hour, pizza in 29 minutes or free; detective shows on TV take one hour from commission of crime to sentencing with time out for ads. We have power breakfasts, and with speed reading, like Woody Allen, we can read "War and Peace" in twenty minutes and say that it's about Russia. Meanwhile, whatever happened to the Psalmist's "Be still [literally, have leisure], and know that I am God."? More cookies for the cupboard!
"Be strong!" Never feel what you feel, only what you ought to feel. Big boys don't cry. Ladies don't get angry. Christians are always nice. Don't be a wimp. Get over grief at the funeral. Ignore your body, it's others that have heart attacks. Forget about the model of Jesus who showed that it is from weakness and surrender and death that resurrection comes. Lots of strong cookies needed in our cupboard.
"Please Others!" For Christians, this has almost become canon law. I can only feel good about myself as long as I ignore my needs, and look after yours. Pushed, it means never having an opinion if someone might not like it. It means never confronting. It means being nice even if you get an ulcer. It means being a doormat, and virtually guarantees being a victim. Again, it means ignoring the model of Jesus, whose only purpose in life was pleasing God, and who had no difficulty challenging and confronting others. Instead, with all this pleasing of others, our cupboard fills up.
"Try! Try hard! Try harder!" This becomes a good substitute for doing something. The harder you try, the less you do – ask any procrastinator. Once you've done something it's done! Keep putting it off and the fun of "trying hard" can go on forever. I'm trying hard to clean up my desk, house, garage, whatever. I'm trying hard to get to church every Sunday. I'm going to try hard to keep up my contributions. I'm going to try hard to exercise, or read, or relax, or pray, or whatever. "Trying" is usually an excuse for doing nothing. Either we are doing it, or we are not. Example; two frogs are sitting on a log, and one tries hard to jump into the pond. How many frogs are sitting on the log? You get the picture. It seems to me, from the Gospels, that Jesus didn't try but did a lot! We stock our cupboard with trying hard.
We might want to have fun with this "tradition of the elders" of our time. See how we might be living by it. And then, let's not forget the core message of today's Gospel, "If we are justifying our lives by any means other than the unconditional, the totally unconditional love of God, we are in trouble." If the free grace of God as shown in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ is not the foundation of our self-worth, then, in some degree, we are living under the curse of the law, under "cupboard love", and refusing the grace of the Gospel.
God does not care how full or how empty our cupboards are, he just loves us.


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