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Recent document on Jews exposes neo-con hypocrisy
Louie January 5, 2016 34 Comments
On December 10, 2015, the Pontifical Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews published a 10,000 word treatment on Nostra Aetate (the Second Vatican Council document on the Church's relation to non-Christians) essentially stating that the Jews are off-limits with respect to the Church's evangelizing efforts. (Video commentary HERE.)
Their reasoning?
According to the document, the salvation of the Jews isn't in jeopardy simply because they reject Jesus Christ:
From the Christian confession that there can be only one path to salvation, however, it does not in any way follow that the Jews are excluded from God's salvation because they do not believe in Jesus Christ as the Messiah of Israel and the Son of God.
This blatant denial of Him who said, "He who rejects me rejects Him who sent me" should spark outrage on the part of every single solitary person who dares lay claim to the name "Christian."
It is clear, however, that this document has created something of a dilemma for the neo-conservative "hermeneutic-of-continuity" crowd (e.g., EWTN, National Catholic Register, and ChurchMilitant.tv to name just a few).
While this latest bit of apostasy out of Rome is presumably as plain and (one hopes) as offensive to them as anyone, they just can't bring themselves to address this document for what it really is; namely, an official statement on the true meaning of Nostra Aetate.
You see, to do so would require departing, first and foremost, from their comfort zones.
It's one thing to acknowledge that the Church in our day is in crisis thanks to an abundance of faithless prelates (even if one stops short of identifying the "humble" prelate in white as one of the worst offenders); it's quite another to admit that the Almighty Council lies at the very heart of the problem.
Addressing that reality head-on not only endangers one's psychological comfort, but also (as I know all-too-well) one's financial comfort too.
Now, some in the neo-conservative camp would likely deny the inextricable link between the Commission's recent document and the content of Nostra Aetate, but that position is simply untenable.
In its opening commentary, the document reminds readers that the Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews was established by Paul VI specifically for the purpose of undertaking "the practical implementation of Nostra Aetate;" clearly, with the suggestion being that this present treatment is simply an exercise of that very mandate.
Others will perhaps attempt to separate the two by pointing out that the Commission plainly said that "the text is not a magisterial document or doctrinal teaching of the Catholic Church."
The fact of the matter is, however, the same can be said of Nostra Aetate itself as it also suffers from a total lack of doctrinal weight. In fact, none of the conciliar decrees are binding upon the faithful as such.
In spite of its nonbinding nature, who can deny that Nostra Aetate has become the de facto "position paper" of the post-conciliar popes with respect to their treatment of the Jews; even to the exclusion of all that preceded it?
In any case, this latest screed from the Pontifical Commission doesn't claim to be anything other than a direct fruit therefrom.
In other words, as I've said in this space before: IT'S THE COUNCIL, STUPID!
This reality has left the dyed-in-the-wool neo-conservative commentator with just two options; either defend the document, or ignore it.
Jimmy Akin of National Catholic Register, for example, produced yet another one of his tortured lists of "things to know and share" wherein he cheery picked from among the more palatable portions of the text, while splitting linguistic hairs on some of the others.
But hey, at least he tried to grab the bull by the horns.
The same cannot be said for our pal Michael Voris over at Church Impotent. Apparently his … ahem … Executive Producer … has decided that this topic comes too close to challenging the Council; something Michael used to do without trepidation before he decided to put sacred cows before sacred tradition.
Likewise has EWTN failed to even mentioned this travesty.
This, of course, may come as little surprise, but what many perhaps fail to recognize is the degree to which the lack of a response in this case (and most certainly others) represents sheer hypocrisy.
Some readers may recall the 2002 document jointly produced by the USCCB Committee for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs (under the leadership of Cardinal William Keeler) and the National Council of Synagogues entitled, "Reflections on Covenant and Mission."
Among other highly controversial things, that document stated:
A deepening Catholic appreciation of the eternal covenant between God and the Jewish people, together with a recognition of a divinely-given mission to Jews to witness to God's faithful love, lead to the conclusion that campaigns that target Jews for conversion to Christianity are no longer theologically acceptable in the Catholic Church.
The publication of this document, the contents of which are being echoed in the one just issued by the Pontifical Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews, elicited such widespread and severe backlash among Catholic prelates and theologians that the USCCB deleted it from its website within (as I recall) just a matter of days.
Among those outlets that published responses that came down rather hard on the apostasy contained in "Reflections" was none other than EWTN.
Writing for the Catholic media giant, Fr. John Paul Echert said:
From what I have read of the document, parts of it strike me as contrary to divine revelation, and I predict that it will not be approved by the Vatican, or perhaps the bishops themselves. As I understand it, this draft was put together by a committee, and it does not have approval by the body of bishops. It is an embarrassment, lacks any teaching authority, and serves to reveal the thinking of some people who hold powerful positions in the national conference. If a document such as this gains approval, as it currently stands, I will seriously consider the prospect that we are moving into one of the signs of the end times, namely, apostasy.
In 2009, the USCCB, still cognizant of the damage that had been done, even went so far as to issue a clarification (which is pathetic in its own right) entitled, "A Note on Ambiguities Contained in 'Reflections on Covenant and Mission.'"
The entire affair was a colossal (and well-deserved) embarrassment for Cardinal Keeler.
Well, guess what?
Reflections on Covenant and Mission is once more available on the USCCB website!
So, what changed?
It's certainly not the truth; rather, the men in charge in Rome have simply taken the propositions put forth by the Council yet another decade further toward their logical conclusion; outright apostasy. In conciliar hindsight, in other words, Cardinal Keeler was guilty of nothing more offensive than being ahead of his time!
Fr. Echert was at least partially correct in predicting that the Vatican wouldn't approve a text so "contrary to divine revelation" as Reflections on Covenant and Mission.
What he, and perhaps none of us, could have imagined, however, is that a Pontifical Commission would issue a likewise reprehensible document of its very own some thirteen years later.
In conclusion, this entire episode, in spite of the great harm that it is causing (about which I will have more to say soon), also serves to confirm what St. Paul wrote in his Epistle to the Romans:
And we know that to them that love God all things work together unto good… (cf Romans 8:28)
In the present case, the good coming from this latest denial of Jesus Christ emanating from Rome lies in the degree to which it is exposing those who present themselves as defenders of the Faith; when in truth their labors are more properly ordered toward defending their own particular franchise.
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Servant of Our Lady January 5, 2016
Well researched, Louie. It is all here.
2017 is just around the corner. It is all becoming more clear.
Woe to us all. May we each cooperate with His Divine Will and persevere.
Jacinta, Francisco, Lucia, pray for us.
Our hope is in what you have noted here:
Our Lady of Good Success and Mother Marianna de Jesus Torres, pray for us.
"And Mathathias cried out
in the city with a loud voice, saying:
Every one that has zeal for the law,
and maintains the testament,
let him follow me".
(From the First Book of Maccabees 2,27).
"Let all those worthy priests
who are to be found throughout the world,
those still in the fight
and those who have withdrawn
to deserts and secluded places,
let them, I say, come and join us.
With the cross as our standard,
let us form a strongly disciplined army
drawn up in lines of battle.
Let us make a concerted attack
on the enemies of God
who have already sounded the alarm".
(St. Louis Mary Grignion de Montfort, FP 29)
Ever mindful January 5, 2016
Two interesting points in referenced article:
1)Saint Paul says that the Old Covenant is obsolete but he does not say that it has been revoked.
2)The Jewish people's walk of suffering is not unlike that of Jesus
Elias Friedman, President of the Association of Hebrew Catholics, has a proposal worthy of much reflection, that the Jewish people have walked a journey like that of their Messiah, and in so doing may soon come to understand who he is. Here is an excerpt:
"As he walked slowly across the stage of history, the Jew took on an uncanny resemblance to Jesus: beaten, spat upon, mocked, derided, bleeding from his judicial scourging, crowned with the thorns of incomprehension, bearing his cross on the way to Galgotha. Jewry ran the gauntlet of the nations…The Jewish Diaspora [Jews living outside of Israel] within Christian Europe … is one long Via Dolorosa [Passion of Christ]."
Mystically speaking, Jewry as a whole was nailed to the cross and died under Hitler. "We all died in Auschwitz" cried out that great soul A. J. Heschel, in the name of all the Jews of his time. On the third day, three years after the conclusion of hostilities in 1945, Jewry rose from the dead; the State of Israel was proclaimed … The purpose of this similarity of destiny is obvious. The people of the Messiah had to be molded into the image of their Messiah, in order to learn who the true Messiah was … about whom we read in the fifty-third chapter of Isaiah … And now, as in the last days of the ancient world, we [Christian Judaism] are perhaps invited to save [the apostatized] Europe from shipwreck".
(JEWISH IDENTITY, Elias Friedman, O.C.D, pg. 68-70)
http://catholicbridge.com/catholic/replacement_theology.php
Alarico January 5, 2016
Likening modern Jews and the belligerent modern state of Israel to the figure Christ is to turn Christian typology on its head. It's perverted.
Catholics must be warned about modern Judaizers the way St. Paul did at the council of Jerusalem when he rebuked St. Peter.
Pope Saint Pius X would agree with you, Alarico.
On January 26, 1904, Theodor Herzl (a Jew) had an audience with Pope Pius X in the Vatican to seek his support for the Zionist effort to establish a Jewish state in Palestine.
Among other comments of his, Pope Saint Pius X said:
"We cannot give approval to this movement. We cannot prevent the Jews from going to Jerusalem—but we could never sanction it. The soil of Jerusalem, if it was not always sacred, has been sanctified by the life of Jesus Christ. As the head of the Church I cannot tell you anything different. The Jews have not recognized Our Lord, therefore we cannot recognize the Jewish people."
Read the whole story for yourself here:
http://www.ccjr.us/dialogika-resources/primary-texts-from-the-history-of-the-relationship/1253-herzl1904
A true Catholic (aka Catholic) must have this mindset.
The intention of Emperor Julian, the apostate, was to rebuild the Temple of Jerusalem and resurrect the blood-stained sacrifices of the abolished Levitical priesthood in order to discredit Christ and his prophecy concerning the Temple.
If we believe that the Levitical priesthood replaced and succeeded the priesthood prior to the incident of the Golden Calf, as ordained by Moses himself, why do the modernists downplay the incident at Calvary, an incident infinitely greater than that of the Golden Calf, by obfuscating the reality that the Catholic priesthood entirely and absolutely succeeded the Levitical one?
Pope Pius X was entirely correct in stating that the Jews should not take Jerusalem. Evangelical so-called Christians are wrong in supporting the Jewish takeover of Jerusalem.
"…..the reality that the Catholic priesthood entirely and absolutely succeeded the Levitical one …."
—— has even been confirmed (unintentionally) by the Talmud with the "miracle of the red thread."
http://eponymousflower.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-miracle-of-red-thread-talmud.html
rich January 5, 2016
The "Jews" who currently inhabit the state of Israel have no relation in any way to those who inhabited that land back when Christ walked the earth.
Frank January 5, 2016
1)Saint Paul says that the Old Covenant is obsolete but he does not say that it has been revoked. – In fact St. Paul was quite clear that the jews could only be saved in the New Covenant, they had been broken off and had to be grafted back in. The law, meaning the old covenant Mosaic law, could not and will not save them.
2)The Jewish people's walk of suffering is not unlike that of Jesus – This is false and blasphemous. Those who had JESUS crucified and their heirs walk with the devil, not JESUS.
This is nothing other than jewish propaganda. As a group they portray themselves as victims when in reality they are usually the victimizers, at least at the elite level. With their anti-CHRIST machinations they made themselves the scourge of nations. Whether it was through masonry, control of financial institutions , communism, etc they have been at war with Christianity and CHRIST since they had JESUS crucified. Up until Vatican II, they were opposed by Popes who warned against their perfidy, though always making it clear that they had to be dealt with in a Christian manner, but not naively. They were not "mystically nailed to the cross" to die under Hitler. This is just more blasphemy. The "six million jews exterminated by the Nazi's" claim is a hoax (only a fraction of the claimed six million died and not by any non existent policy of "extermination"), used by the jews to ,again, portray themselves as victims, derail criticism of their anti – CHRIST behavior and gain support for their satanic, jewish supremacist state of Israel. They were no more following THE MESSIAH in World War II than they did before or have since, however many innocent jews may have died then. To compare the jew's experience to THE LORD'S passion and death is pure blasphemy. The jews as a whole remain at war with CHRIST whether in the talmudic religious form or the jewish supremacist secular form. Pray, of course, for their conversion, JESUS died for them also, but have no illusions.
Yes, Frank.
mpoulin January 6, 2016
Engineer Fritz Sander testifying on March 7 1946.
Quoted from the interrogation transcripts by Prof. Gerald Fleming from the University of Surrey, in an NYT article, July 18 1993:
"I decided to design and build a crematorium with a higher capacity. I completed this project of a new crematorium in November 1942–a crematorium for mass incineration, and I submitted this project to a State Patent Commission in Berlin.
This "Krema" was to be built on the conveyor belt principle. That is to say, the corpses must be brought to the incineration furnaces without interruption. When the corpses are pushed into the furnaces, they fall onto a grate, and then slide into the furnace and are incinerated. The corpses serve at the same time as fuel for heating of the furnaces. This patent could not yet be approved by the Main Patent Office in Berlin, because of its classification (as a state secret).
Q. Although you knew about the mass liquidation of innocent human beings in crematoriums, you devoted yourself to designing and creating higher capacity incineration furnaces for crematoriums – and on your own initiative.
A. I was a German engineer and key member of the Topf works and I saw it as my duty to apply my specialist knowledge in this way to help Germany win the war, just as an aircraft construction engineer builds airplanes in wartime, which are also connected with the destruction of human beings."
I suppose engineers like Mr Sander just built the crematoriums on their own initiative with their own money for no reason whatsoever Frank? My research says it was no hoax.
Michael F Poulin
In 1942 (SS officer) Kurt Gerstein was appointed head of the Technical Disinfection Department of the Waffen SS, responsible for improving the efficiency of the gas chambers.
On August 21-22, 1942, on his way back to Germany from Poland, he travelled by train and encountered the Secretary to the Swedish Legation in Berlin, Baron Göran von Otter.
Less than an hour from Warsaw, the train stopped in open country. "We both got down to get a breath of air," von Otter later recalled. "There were beads of sweat on his forehead. There were tears in his eyes. And his voice was hoarse when he said at once: I saw something awful yesterday – can I come and see you at the Legation?" Von Otter suggested that they talk on the train. Gerstein agreed. "Is it the Jews?" von Otter asked. "Yes, it is," Gerstein replied. "I saw more than ten thousand die today."
In a feverish conversation lasting hours, Gerstein poured out the whole story, crying and smoking incessantly. He related all he had just seen to the Swedish diplomat and begged him to tell the Swedish government about the atrocities in the camps. He desperately urged von Otter to make it known to the Allies and the outside world.
Von Otter later described the encounter: "It was hard to get Gerstein to keep his voice down. We stood there together, all night, some six hours or maybe eight. And again and again, Gerstein kept on recalling what he had seen. He sobbed and hid his face in his hands. From the very beginning as Gerstein described the atrocities, weeping and broken hearted, I had no doubt as to the sincerity of his humanitarian intentions."
john6 January 7, 2016
Order yourself a copy of SYNAGOGUE RISING by hugh akins and inform yourself with some hard facts and truths about the talmudic lies of recent history. Heres a interview with hugh akins himself
http://youtu.be/wMBxy2F5QtI
salvemur January 7, 2016
Ask, seek, knock. "My people have been silent, because they had no knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will reject thee, that thou shalt not do the office of priesthood to me: and thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy children."
http://www.novusordowatch.org/wire/for-fear-of-the-jews.htm
Most trads dont bother attacking zionism as they should…..they are appalled at what is going on with the Church but they are afraid to point out what the true underlying reason is. Hugh Akins, who has a big problem with the current state of the SSPX btw (thanks for your link), is a true voice of Catholic reason.
With that said, I still believe that he is way off base in acknowledging a man who he condemns, bergoglio, as a true pope. I dont get that way of thinking anymore, but I wont denigrate those who still adhere to it…..4 years ago I would have thought the idea of sedevacantism entirely nuts myself.
You better do some more research. No gas chambers have ever been proven to have existed nor any delivery devices for the gas. Not one autopsy has ever shown any deaths from gas poisoning; tests done at alleged extermination camps, by Fred Leuchter, an expert on execution devices, at Auschwitz, Birkenau and Lublin found no significant traces of cyanide, which would have been impossible if gassings had occurred. (The testing was later repeated by the Polish government to disprove Leuchter's findings, but arrived at similar results; the alleged gas chambers designs were so faulty (they were not hermetically sealed, no equipment exists that would have aired out the rooms from the gas, no exhaust stacks, nothing to prevent the condensation of gas in the rooms) that they couldn't have been used for this alleged purpose.
If the gassing of six million jews had really occurred, as alleged, it would have taken 68 years to accomplish; camps such as Auschwitz, for example, were small.
The nazi's also kept records in great detail, even records of shrubbery ! Yet not a single pre-war plan or war plan has ever been found concerning the mass extermination of jews. Highly unlikely if there was going to be such a project undertaken.
"Eye witness accounts" and various "testimony" can't stand up to the hard facts and lack of "holocaust" evidence.
john6, you are absolutely right. Hugh Akins book "Synagogue Rising" is excellent and eye opening I recommend it highly.
prisca ann January 7, 2016
I wasn't there and so I have no voice.
However, my neighbor was and does.
He was one of the "Devils in Baggy Pants" and at the age of 92 and 3 wars later, he would stand in the face of anyone denying what he knows he saw, he heard and he smelled. Stand in their face, shake his finger and make you listen.
He emotionally told me of liberating a concentration camp, of the corpses and the STENCH. How the smell would get into their clothing and they had to burn their own clothes when returning to the rear. How they rounded up the German civilians and forced them to march, forced them to come face to face with the wickedness of their nation. Forced them to look at what they had done.
And they wept.
I do not defend Jews' denying of Christ. But denying atrocities serves no one.
Pray for the conversion of the Jews, no matter what Francis says.
And please pray for an old man, having served in 3 wars as an Infantryman and survived…yet doesn't believe in miracles. Or salvation. Pray for him, please.
Now subject scripture to Church interpretation. You are blazing protestant EM.
Bless you Salvemur,
I was merely linking to an article written by a Hebrew Catholic (was Jewish…now Catholic) to try to understand a converts perspective on the subject matter…perhaps I did not choose the best samples from his article, and they don't make much sense in isolation , without reading the whole article…
For a season, I shall take the counsel of St Joseph……..
Lord have mercy on you, EM. If the comments you post are an accurate reflection of your place regards the faith, you are a disciple of Bergoglio.
PS. Here's some real charity:
https://lxoa.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/pennycatechismchanges.pdf
http://www.novusordowatch.org/michael-davies-evaluation.pdf
PS. as regards your 'bless you'…it simply rings creepy.
If the changes in even the penny catechism are dismissimible, like the changes in the service, the 'sacraments', the translation of scripture, the dismissal of Apostolicity in ordination, the universal 'authenticity' of Christ's one enduring voice … then subscribe to club nuts or club SR… satan rules…in the minds and hearts of every protestant, novus ordite, pagan, rabbinite, imamite, r&rite…it really really really does not matter…until you confront Christ in judgement…when it will be all that matters…but how ridiculously Catholic to think so eschatologically 'now'.
MikeAnthony January 7, 2016
EM, indeed is a NO through and through unfortunately.
Midway upon the journey of our life,
I found myself within a forest dark,
for the straightforward pathway had been lost
Three things before the end of the world, taught the Fathers of Trent: that the Gospel be preached to the ends of the earth; that there be a great apostasy; and the Advent of Antichrist. The first two are done and dusted, though were still prophetic in the days of Trent. VII, its Novus Ordo and evil heresiarchs and all who commune with, support and pay homage to them belong to the Great Apostasy. If you adhere to the Novus Ordo it is likely you will be a willing advocate of Antichrist.
http://mhtseminary.libsyn.com/sermon-fifty-years-of-vatican-ii-by-bp-sanborn
The Protestant worship of Rabbinicalism finds two avenues – the worship of the secular nation of Israel, or the worship of their Arabic 'enemies' (they both have the same source). They are the same coin with two sides. One thing no Protestant does, is acknowledge the indefectability of the Roman Catholic Church – her divine nature and her purity in doctrine and practice, however many bad priests or bad popes have passed through the gate. Those bad popes never broke the restraint of the Holy Ghost. The Novus Ordo heresiarchs and their institution are not the Bride of Christ. They have already officially and universally contradicted divine revelation. That they would do so in the case of Rabbinicalism yet again, is expected.
The same heresiarch kisses the Talmud, the Koran and the Protestant 'bible', either in public act or in words and teaching. Heresiarchs are no longer shocking. The defense of them as Catholic is disgusting.
http://youtu.be/ZJ6hYG6xOqc
aroamingcatholicny January 6, 2016
Neo Catholics, are they really Catholics?
A Catholic Thinker January 6, 2016
Awesome legwork.
Yes, Cardinal Keeler was a visionary indeed, of the worst kind.
my2cents January 7, 2016
Louie, I'm glad you mentioned Father Echert. In the past, I was a frequent visitor to EWTN Q&A. Some of the responses were "off the wall". However, it was always refreshing to read the advice of Father Echert whose responses were always orthodox, Traditional and very Catholic. He is still listed as one of the "experts", but I don't think he is taking an active role in this capacity. I wonder why??
Also, it is good to note that Edith Stein, Jewish philosopher, who was canonized by the Catholic Church (St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross), knowing the Nazis would find her, offered all of her sufferings for the conversion of the Jews. I guess the modern church would say "WHY??".
Bergoglio and Newchurch religion–who or what you believe in doesn't really matter!
http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2016/01/pope-francis-ecumenism-over-all-else.html#more
jacobum January 8, 2016
It is clear that the "NewChurch" frogs no longer need boiling. They are done. Their shepherds have abandoned the sheep and the Chief Shepherd has joined the wolves. PF could do a Hindu Dance on the main altar at St Peters and raise not a whimper from Satan's sycophants from the neo catholic media.


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MADISON— The Wisconsin Department of Revenue (DOR), in partnership with the Wisconsin Department of Administration (DOA), and on behalf of the U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury), distributed the second tranche payment of American Rescue Plan Act – State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds (ARPA-SLFRF) to Wisconsin non-entitlement units (NEUs) of government today.
A total of 1,824 Wisconsin NEUs are receiving a second payment of ARPA-SLFRF funding. The collaboration effort between DOA and DOR results in a distribution of over $205 million in relief funds to local governments in Wisconsin.
"I am extremely proud of the efforts of our staff to ensure every local unit of government was contacted and made fully aware of the funding available to them. As a result, 99.8% of Wisconsin's towns, villages and cities decided to accept and have now received this funding for their communities," said Department of Revenue Secretary Peter Barca. This is a remarkable achievement, and the Towns Association and League of Municipalities, who have been excellent partners with us, deserve enormous credit.
NEUs are typically Wisconsin towns, villages and cities with a population under 50,000. Through the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, NEUs could apply for relief funding last year. The payments were to be distributed in two allocations; 50% was distributed in 2021, and the remaining portion was allocated today.
Local governments are authorized to use their relief funds to:
· Support public health expenditures
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· Note: Local governments can use up to $10 million (not more than their award amount) for government services
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Cal: No. 1 with a bullseye
By Ryan Herrington
There is no truth to the rumor that by the time you stop reading this, the California men will have won another title.
The Golden Bears' winning ways (10 titles/12 starts) in 2012-13 will make this a year to remember regardless of their postseason showing. Of course, should they hold form and win an NCAA title, the number of memories will increase exponentially, not to mention the number of comparisons to the game's all-time great programs.
Here's a look at the Division I top 25 as we enter NCAA men's regionals week.
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Like with the women's polls last week, here are some stats to digest as the final poll of the spring is released:
â¿¢ 16 schools were in the top 25 for all nine first-place votes.
Nova Southeastern, set to defend its NCAA title next week at Hershey (Pa.) CC, is the unanimous choice for the No. 1 ranking in the final spring Division II coaches' poll. The Sharks earned all 15 first-place votes after winning the South/Southeast Regional last week for their four win of the 2012-13 season. In 11 starts this year, the team has finish first or second 10 times.
Barry held on to the No. 2 spot in the ranking as it also secured a place at nationals last week. Florida Southern moved up to the No. 3 spot with CSU-Monterey Bay and Lynn rounding out the top five.
With the Division III, NAIA and NJCAA Division I schools all competing this week in their respective national championships, no new polls were conducted for these conferences. The lone remaining division with new poll results is the NJCAA D-II.


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Does the US constitution allow for a re-write?
Hypothetically...
Say I wanted to re-write the constitution of the United States. Not amend it, but completely start over. Could I do that within the law?
You've done it before, when the Articles of Confederation were replaced. Maybe I want to tidy away all the amended parts that no longer apply. Or maybe I have some nefarious motive. (Evil laugh.)
Would I need to pass The Last Amendment that states my new constitution is the constitution and I'd only need to persuade 38 states to agree?
Or, is there only scope for a series of amendments that can never change what came before, only effectively nullify it?
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Article Five outlines the process for the legal amending of the Constitution by both Congress (to the tune of 27 times) and the Constitutional Convention (to the tune of never... save for the original Constitution Drafting). Article Seven stipulates how the proposed constitution would become The Constitution.
At present, an amendment must pass both Houses of Congress with 2/3rds of the vote. It is then voted upon by the states until such time as 3/4ths of the states agree to the proposed amendment, at which time, it becomes a part of the constitution and enforceable as such. It has been common to put a time limit on amendments so that the 3/4ths of the state must make the change relatively soon. There is no hard rule for this, as the most recent amendment was passed by the States after Congress passed it with the original Bill of Rights.
The Constitutional Convention has never been tried and is therefor a bit of legal danger as there is no provision that supports the limited scope of a convention nor opposes it (One could call a Convention to pass a balanced budget amendment and emerge with a Constitution that makes North Korea look like a Democratic paradise by comparison, if not limited in scope.).
In addition, Article Seven is the article which describes the manner by which the Constitution would become The Constitution and what it needed to do to get there (get passed by 9 of the 13 states, at which time, the 9 undersigned states would be under the rule of the U.S. Constitution, while the remaining four would be left to their own device until they signed.).
An Amendment to the Constitution, is essentially a rewrite and there are several Amendments that overturn language in the Constitution (the 14th Amendment overturned the 3/5ths compromise in Article One, section 2, which at this time, only applied to penal servitude as slavery was outlawed in the 13th amendment). The 17th Amendment superseded Article 1, section 3 (originally states' legislatures appointed the Senators). The 18th Amendment was fully repealed by the 21st Amendment. When this happens, most copies of the constitution used for study will show this by having a line struck through the original text and further annotate what amendment affected this section to be struck out. It is essentially no different than you writing something down in ink, then scratching it out and writing a new item (this isn't done on original constitutions written by the framers... those are historical artifacts.).
Of course, there is nothing that allows the citizens of the United States to Rebel and form a new system of government that outright replaces the constitution. More importantly, to the framer's mind I suspect, there is nothing that says you Cannot Rebel and start your own new government (with Black-Jack and Hookers!) (Also, if you've read your Federalist Papers, they are much more candid that the Second Amendment was put there so the people had a way to rebel if it became necessary... one Federalist Paper openly states there should be no problem with a private citizen owning ships that were armed with cannons that could compete with contemporary naval vessels. Consider that the Founding Fathers were rebels). But by including the Amendment Process, they would hope to protect their rebellion from the next by allowing for ways to change the problems they did not think of in a less bloody method than their own rebellion.
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What about the restriction on amendments depriving the states of their equal suffrage in the Senate? – phoog Feb 7 '18 at 21:08
@phoog Agreed. Any state deprived of its equal sufferage in the Senate by the amendment must consent to the amendment. Now, theoretically, one might be able to greatly reduce the power of the Senate to make the fact that it is retained with equal sufferage a trivial detail. But, that limitation does apply. – ohwilleke Feb 7 '18 at 22:20
It's worth pointing out that the convention route can propose whatever hellish dystopian anti-constitution it wants. it's meaningless unless ratified by 3/4 of the states. And Congress has all the powers of a standing convention of unlimited scope anyway. So treating a convention as some new and dangerous and foreign thing is unjustified. – Stephen Collings Feb 8 '18 at 3:25
@StephenCollings: Personally, I would like to see one happen with limited scope, but I do understand the fear that others may have with regards to the fact that it has never been done before and no one really knows what to do once one is called. – hszmv Feb 8 '18 at 16:56
@phoog: Could you clarify what you're asking about? I'm not sure what you're looking at in my answer when you asked your question. – hszmv Feb 8 '18 at 16:57
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Q: SpringBoot, JPA and Hibernate Unit-Test for Entities layer I'm implementing a project using SpringBoot, JPA and Hibernate.
I implemented the DB entities layer with JPA repository.
I'm interested to understand the best practice to write unit-tests for this layer.

*

*Point number one: for this layer, from your point of view, it's necessary to use an integrated DB or it' necessary to mock using, for example, Mockito?

*My idea, for this layer, it's, for example, to test the entity structure: check fields validation for example, insert and retrieve some data. In this way, I think I could cover the tests for this entire data-layer.

I'm trying to understand these best practices and, in the mean time, I tried to write a first example of the test:
@ActiveProfiles("test")
@DisplayName("Test Item JPA Entity")
@DataJpaTest
@AutoConfigureTestDatabase( replace = AutoConfigureTestDatabase.Replace.NONE )
public class ItemEntityTest {

    @Autowired
    MyEntityRepository repo;

    @Test
    @Transactional
    public void testEntityCreation() {

        Entity e = new Entity();
        e.setMyField1("A");
        e.setMyField1("A");
        //e.setMandatoryField("C")

        repo.save(e);

    }
}

Unfortunately, In this case, I notiest that the fields validation is not applied (@NotNull or @NotEmpty, or @Column(nullable=false), etc ... If I try to save the entity into my application the validation works fine... the exceptions are raised). Why?
Also some "automatic fields" (for example creation time and last modification time) are not filled.
Is this the correct path? Ho to test my entities definition?

A: As mentioned in that answer, the problem is that with @DataJpaTest spring will use TestEntityManager and the transactional annotation will override the default auto commit and rollback behaviour by spring boot.
So your test method will pass and assuming the hibernate is the ORM being used here, when the flushing will take place finally, hibernate's pre-insert event will fire and validations will be applied, but your test case will pass till then so it will produce false positive (as the terms used in spring docs)
Solution: You would need to inject entity manager in your test and flush manually it so that hibernate pre-insert event triggers before your test completes.
@ActiveProfiles("test")
@DisplayName("Test Item JPA Entity")
@DataJpaTest
@AutoConfigureTestDatabase( replace = AutoConfigureTestDatabase.Replace.NONE )
public class ItemEntityTest {

    @Autowired
    MyEntityRepository repo;

    @Autowired
    private TestEntityManager em;

    @Test
    @Transactional
    public void testEntityCreation() {

        Entity e = new Entity();
        e.setMyField1("A");
        e.setMyField1("A");
        //e.setMandatoryField("C")

        repo.save(e);

        em.flush();
    }
}

This must trigger your validations on the entity applied, this is documented in spring framework docs.
Please notice that the documentation is about spring framework and uses session factory, but the concept is same
You may check the spring boot docs as well, which points to the spring framework docs for this behaviour.

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07/11/2011 : Taff's Gloversblog : Chesterfield 2 Yeovil 2 : As You Were Then
7 November 2011 : Chesterfield 2 Yeovil 2 : As You Were Then
Whilst Terry Skiverton may have tried to play down Saturday's trip to Chesterfield as being a six-pointer, I rather doubt that in his heart he did not realise the magnitude of the game at the B2Net Stadium. A win and the Glovers would have been guaranteed to be off the foot of League One. A defeat though and one of our nearest rivals would have been four points clear, and quite possibly out of the relegation zone. As it happens, a 2-2 draw meant that little changed - Yeovil stayed bottom, Chesterfield stayed in 22nd, Wycombe stayed between both clubs, and the crucial gap between us and the safety line didn't change, although a few of the clubs just above the zone grabbed valuable wins to stretch the table a little more.
This was Yeovil's first ever visit to the B2Net Stadium, after a couple of previous matches at their old crumbling Saltergate ground. That still exists in the town centre for the moment, with the bulldozers yet to move in 18 months after their move. The new ground is not quite as far out of town as you'd expect it to be - nor was it quite the no-go zone that Chesterfield's own advice for those travelling would have suggested. We found a free unlimited parking space five minutes walk from the ground at 1.00p.m. and even at 2.50p.m. there were still spaces in that road. The claim that the main club car park was locked down to traffic half an hour before and after the game didn't appear to be enforced either.
The new stadium is a tidy affair, and pleasing on the eye, even if it is a little samey compared with other modern football grounds of this size. The 5,882 crowd meant that the stadium was only half full, which led to a slightly echoey atmosphere at times. There are good views of the pitch from the away end though, and the 200-250ish travelling fans were able to make their usual healthy noise from under the roof.
The diamond formation that was used for the home game against Huddersfield was selected, although with striker Oli Johnson dropping out of the squad as the sixth available loanee in the squad. Oli hasn't quite captured the spark that he had on last season's loan spell yet, although to be fair to him he was a slow starter last time he came in on loan. It can't have helped him to have six months rotting at Carrow Road without a future there.
His replacement was Conor Clifford who was a somewhat surprising addition to the squad on Friday. Not surprising in the sense of his identity - Skiverton had been after him since transfer deadline day - but surprising given that he arrives from Chelsea just as most of the squad are coming back to full fitness. As of this week, with Jonathan Obika's return, he will be one of seven loanees competing for five matchday positions. We've got upwards of 30 players now classed as first team squad players, and with no Reserve Team, we surely now need to get a few more out on loan to keep them interested.
Clifford was - I think - meant to be at the top of the diamond, although such was the pressure on the Yeovil defence throughout the game, that it became more of a 4-1-3-2 formation in practice, with only Paul Wotton's blocking role clear, in what was a rearguard performance in the main from the four central midfielders on the pitch. The Spireites took the lead early on when Lee Johnson showed he hasn't lost his creativity, being involved in a built-up that saw Marek Stech try to block a close range shot in vain before Jordan Bowery knocked the rebound home.
Stech was - not for the first time in his short loan spell - the busiest man on the pitch. Far too many crosses into the box weren't being dealt with by the Glovers back line. A high proportion of the play was in one half, which made the equalising goal all the more surprising. Ed Upson's through pass was sublime. In fact so sublime, you were left wondering if Lee Johnson had quietly swapped his Chesterfield shirt for a Yeovil one, to replay some of his own midfield magic. That Upson is starting to add that kind of feature to his game is good news. The bad news is that he is one of many whose contracts run out in the summer - Paul Huntington and Luke Ayling are two more that need to be sorted out one way or another. Upson's pass found Gavin Massey and he showed why we're keeping him for a third month despite Andy Williams and Jonathan Obika now being back to relative fitness.
The second half opened with Yeovil's best spell of passing. Even if it was a little bit too sideways and without consequence. Actually it did have some consequences - Chesterfield's second goal. We got a little bit too sucked into Chesterfield's half, and forgot that they were still capable of attacking our goal. Bondz N'Gala not only let Jordan Bowery get on the wrong side of him - he also got hopelessly outpaced. 2-1 down and on the balance of play utterly no doubt that it was deserved.
In fact the Spireites deserved to have more than that. Marek Stech's first half saves were added to by the woodwork saving us twice in the second half. Stech's one handed save onto the crossbar was outstanding. With no disrespect to Jed Steer, we've got a better keeper in his place, and Skiverton will face a tricky conundrum of what to do next weekend when he is on Czech Republic international duty. In reality the Hereford United match is too huge to have our goalkeeping coach Gareth Stewart between the sticks - but if we bring in another loan keeper, then it will be hard to justify that player or Stech sat on the bench for the next month.
Just when it seemed as though that we were destined for a 2-1 defeat - or more likely worse than that, Mark Allott helped us out by scoring our second goal. Having now seen it on TV, Max Ehmer's run does look a little more deliberate than I'd initially given the move credit for, but I'd still draw the line at suggesting that this was the result of a training ground move - unless Mr Allott was moonlighting down at Huish Park during the week on how to convert near post crosses.
Allott was rather lucky to last the whole 90+3 minutes. The home side had got a little frustrated - as had their fans - at the fact that it now looked like they weren't going to cruise the game. Exactly what Allott thought he was doing grabbing Ed Upson by the scuff of his neck and yanking him off the deck, only he will know. We've had a lot of card-happy referees this season, and perhaps he was a little bit fortunate that in the 93rd minute of a match, referee Andrew Madley wasn't going to change his policy of letting the game flow without intervention. Just a yellow, and a lucky Allott.
Yeovil themselves were a little lucky to end the game with eleven men on the field for different reasons. We'd already lost Nathan Jones to a bang on the knee that left him hobbling about, but during the second period with all three substitutes used, Alan O'Brien began to hobble badly, and was largely a passenger during the final five minutes. Another hamstring injury for him it appears.
The removal of Nathan Jones from the field was delayed by Darren Purse getting a knock-out blow in the first half. How on earth a player can get 100 percent knocked out cold one minute, yet be heading the ball five minutes later is beyond me. I suspect that with Jones coming off, and the only defensive player on the bench in Kerrea Gilbert being pushed on, that Purse was under pressure to continue. The question has to be asked though why we had four wide players on the bench, with Curtis Haynes-Brown left entirely out of the squad. We need a little more balance on our bench to cover all bases.
The point gained wasn't really deserved, but as several have pointed out, the defeat against Huddersfield wasn't really deserved either. It seems that how we play, and what we get out of the games at present don't really match up, and it's coming down to individual errors in matches from ourselves or the opposition that decide what we go home with. The point still keeps us in reach of safety, but I hope there's no resting on laurels, as like Stevenage and Colchester United, we were fortunate to grab something.
So, ten games without a win, and one win in our last sixteen games. We could call it one defeat in our last four games but when you're trying to play catch-up on teams, you need some wins amongst that, and we've been fortunate that the bottom five clubs more or less make up the bottom five positions in the form table. The danger is that the likes of Exeter City, Scunthorpe United, Bournemouth and Leyton Orient - all in the bottom four a month ago - are now clawing their way upwards. We need a win or two if we are to start doing the same, and Saturday's match didn't look like we were about to achieve that.
Rough thoughts on individual players:
Marek Stech: Utterly outstanding and once again Man of the Match for us. There were a few people questioning whether he should have come for Chesterfield's second goal, and it's true that he came off his line very quickly, but I was more looking at where his defence had gone, rather than whether he had the right to go for the ball. The finish by Bowery was superb though, and the number of saves he did elsewhere in the game made up for any quibbles there.
Max Ehmer: Didn't look comfortable trying to play as a full-back in a diamond formation. Looked a little bit exposed at times without a winger in front of him. That said, he did set up the cross for our equalising goal, so proved he is capable of some attacking intent.
Darren Purse: He may not be captain, but he's certainly a leader. His performances bring into question why Millwall have made such little use of him. Expected him to be off the field after his first half knock-out, but surprised everyone by coming back onto the field and still looking the best of our back four even with possible concussion and a banging headache.
Bondz N'Gala: Not a particularly accomplished game from him. Got completely undone for the second goal, with a lack of pace shown up. Struggled to win a lot of crosses into the box.
Nathan Jones: A fairly reasonable game for Jonesy, up until the point where it became quite clear he was hopping on one leg. Had to be kept out there until Purse had come back on. Hopefully nothing too serious with his knee.
Paul Wotton: One of several midfielders who couldn't quite get it together in the slightly squashed diamond. A horrendous backpass from him almost gifted Chesterfield a third goal during the second half. Were his arguments with the referee and the Chesterfield wall all part of mind games each time Yeovil had a free kick? Hard to say.
Dominic Blizzard: Steady, but not too visible game.
Ed Upson: Easily the pick of the midfielders. The pass for Gavin Massey's opener shone like a beaming light out of the rest of our passing during the game. He was the one midfielder who seemed to irritate Chesterfield - a sort of a hybrid of Darren Way snapping at your heels, but then the Johnsonesque pass for the goal.
Conor Clifford: A few early errors could be put down to nerves. A steady game, but like Blizzard, I didn't notice too much to get excited by. Early days mind, given that he probably met his team-mates on the coach up to the match.
Kieran Agard: Looked very bright at the start of the game, but faded when he struggled to get service.
Gavin Massey: Took his goal very well, and looked very confident as soon as he received the pass. When Obika and Andy Williams are fully fit, he's the one striker you'd hope would keep his place.
Kerrea Gilbert: Looked a bit rusty, but that's to be expected given his lack of game time.
Alan O'Brien: Due to his hamstring strain, didn't achieve a lot out there, although did put in one excellent block tackle in the centre of the park when his midfield colleagues went missing.
Andy Williams: Good to have him on the field again, although didn't really notice too much.
Jem Gardener said ...
A more measured and accurate view of the game than most of what I've read on TGR2. This certainly was not a great performance, and to be fair we should have lost, but nor was it 'dire' as some have claimed. 'Dire' was the 2nd half at Stevenage. In this game we actually played some football and had periods of good fluent possession. But of course that doesn't win games. It's the defence (back 4 and defensive midfield) that needs the urgent attention. The number of first half crosses (particularly from Lee and Nathan!)that rained in to tall attackers in the 1st half was staggering. We seemed to be clueless about how to prevent this. I'm not the first to mention that Terry of all people should be able to stiffen the defence. Not in person though!
Further forward I feel it's more a matter of tweaking. The return of Andy W (with others to follow) means that the hoofing forward may even start working :-)
Dusty said ...
A fair summary though I thought Clifford did very well for his first game; I agree N'Gala was outplayed by Bowery in particular; in my view Ehmer has gone off the boil and is not a left back - I would play him as a defensive midfielder; Massey hardly put a foot wrong and took his goal beautifully; Stech was brilliant and he was not far away from stopping the second goal; Upson's pass was excellent for our 1st goal but he hangs on to the ball too long at times; keep Purse. We need to keep possession of the ball and make better passing decisions - Skivo should make the team watch the whole of that game and count how many times we had control of the ball but managed to give it to the opposition.
john martin said ...
Has Haynes-Brown done something wrong to be left out of the squad let alone the team? why cant the manager,arguably one of our greatest defenders get his own playing the same and why cant we have signed keeper?
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The Oak Street Bridge  is a crossing over the north arm of the Fraser River, the Canada Line, and several roads, in Metro Vancouver.

History

Infrastructure
During the planning stage, it was known as the New Marpole Bridge, and steel plate girders salvaged from the second Granville Street Bridge made barges for constructing the foundations of the Oak St. Bridge.

Opened in June 1957, the same date as the Moray Bridge, these links replaced the
Marpole Bridge (road). The new configuration created a more circuitous route between Vancouver and Vancouver International Airport (YVR), not restored until the Arthur Laing Bridge opened in 1975. Initially, the highway ended at No. 4 Rd, short of connecting with No. 5 Rd. and the Ladner Ferry. A primary objective was to create a fast route to the U.S. border, partially realized on the 1959 opening of the Deas Tunnel, and fully with the 1962 opening of Highway 99 to the border. A branch connected to the new Tsawwassen ferry terminal.

Vancouver regarded the bridge as a source of unwanted traffic. Despite federal promises to share construction costs, the province ended up wholly financing the project. Costing about $9m, the structure is  long. The main spans comprise haunched (deeper at supports) steel girders and the approaches are steel or concrete girders. The central heavy steel deck plate girders, continuous over three spans, measure , , and . The freeway standard of Highway 99 ends where the bridge joins the Vancouver surface street grid. Average daily crossings were 85,000 cars in 2000. Averaging 18,000 cars on opening,  summer daily averages were 70,000 in 1970, 74,000 in 1975, and 71,000 in 1980.

The Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure for BC owns and maintains this high-level four-lane bridge. Cyclists are legally required to ride on the sidewalks.

Tolls
The premier announced that the 25-cent toll would remain for 12½ years to cover construction costs for both the Oak St. and Moray bridges. A week later, he revised this to two years, a promise not fulfilled. Initially to avoid tolls, most traffic used the Fraser Street Bridge, causing massive congestion, leaving Oak St. Bridge underused. Toll plazas existed on Sea Island Way and on the highway south off the bridge.

On opening, the Deas Tunnel toll was 50 cents, but a combined tunnel/bridge ticket was 60 cents.

However, weekly tickets offered huge savings. A book of 24 tickets usable at each crossing cost $1.25, amended to $1 for 20 tickets from June 1960.

The premier announced that tolls would be lifted from all highways on April 1, 1964, but were removed at 7:30 pm the previous evening. George Massey, after whom the tunnel was renamed, and an outspoken opponent of the tolls, paid the final toll at the bridge that evening. The toll booths were removed and the roadway narrowed accordingly.

Later, the Coquihalla Highway had staffed toll booths (1986–2008), and electronic tolling operated on the new Golden Ears (2009–2017), and Port Mann (2012–2017) bridges.

Maintenance, upgrades and incidents
During the morning rush hour of November 27, 1959, heavy fog and road ice caused pileups that damaged 150 cars. The largest involved 35 cars, the next 23 and the third 18. Seven people went to hospital.

In 1964, a driver, who suffered stroke, plunged off the south end. Sustaining minor injuries from the accident, he died in hospital.

The Oak St. Bridge/Highway 99 interchange with Bridgeport Rd./Sea Island Way was modified in 1969–70, and 2001. Despite extensive work on the bridge deck expansion joints in 1973–74, they were rebuilt during 1976–78, and the deck repaved. In 1980–81, major pier protection occurred.

In 1995, owing to extensive deterioration of the bridge deck and precast sidewalk panels, two lanes were closed alternately for resurfacing the deck with a high performance concrete, followed by a waterproof membrane, and asphalt. Recent traffic accidents that highlighted important safety deficiencies prompted the installation of no-posts at the median and curbs. The deck joints were again replaced, and deteriorated concrete on the bridge underside removed and patched.

The cast-in-place concrete girders of the southern approach were vulnerable to collapse from movements during soil liquefaction. To strengthen the under-reinforced girders, glass fibre reinforced polymer wraps, the most flexible of possible composites, were chosen. Installed over four separate contracts, the seismic retrofit was completed in 2002.

Neighbourhood redevelopment

After the bridge opened, more than 50 stores at Hudson and Marine Drive closed from lost business. Low-rise stucco apartments replaced older houses. Once the Arthur Laing Bridge opened, Granville Street developed as the commercial centre.

At the south end of the Oak St. Bridge, construction started in 1960 on the first hotel at the highway interchange. Opening in 1962, the 62-room motor inn, initially called Delport Inn, then Airport Inn, was the birth of the Delta Hotels chain. Construction beginning in 1971, the 14-storey tower that opened the next year was the tallest building in Richmond. The project added 144 new suites, and included renovating and expanding the existing amenities. The property is now branded the Sandman Signature Hotel.

Other hotels built in the immediate vicinity, and their current branding, are the Abercorn Inn (1981), Travelodge Hotel (1984), Accent Inn (1988), and Sandman Hotel Airport (1999).

On cleared land hugging the east side of the southern approach, two midrise office buildings and two hotels are under construction. The Courtyard by Marriott and Residence Inn by Marriott brand hotels will provide 201 rooms.

See also
 List of crossings of the Fraser River
 List of BC bridges

Footnotes

References

Girder bridges in Canada
Bridges in Greater Vancouver
Bridges completed in 1957
Transport in Richmond, British Columbia
Bridges over the Fraser River
Road bridges in British Columbia
Buildings and structures in Vancouver
Buildings and structures in Richmond, British Columbia
Former toll bridges in Canada

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Cross River state Govt signs MoU with food giant, Dantata Food and Allied Products Limited for Agro Industrial Development
To strengthen and grow the agro industrial drive of Governor Ben Ayade"s administration, the state government has signed a memorandum of understanding with a business gaint, Dantata food and allied products company limited.
The MoU was signed by the commissioner for commerce, Mrs RoseMary Archibong for the Cross River State government while the General Manager Corporate Services Alh Sanusi Bature signed for the company.
The signing of the MoU witnessed by the representatives of the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, that of Agriculture, Industry, and smSecretary of Calabar Chambers of Commerce and Zenith Bank as we'll as the private sector was held at the ministry of Commerce conference hall Eyo Ita house in Calabar.
Speaking after the signing of the MoU the Governor sir Ben Ayade represented by the commissioner for Commerce Mrs. RoseMary Archibong, noted that the industrial development drive of Governor Ben Ayade has began receiving visibility in all nooks and crannies of the country and the international community.
" Ayade came with a vision, I called him, the clairvoyant Governor, because he came at a time , cross river lost her oil fortune. She said.
"He knows we have to go back to the basis, and the basis is Agriculture and agro business, and so from inception he came with the policy of going back to the farms and did not just speak but put his words into action through so many agric policies". Archibong explained.
The Commerce boss while expressing confident on the state partnership with Dantata food giant, believed that the relationship will not only blossom, but boast the state economy and provide employment, recreate businesses and strengthen existing ones to grow and encourage export.
" Dantata food and Allied Products limited (is generational), proud that the state is dealing with a reliable business companion with a lot of experience. Continuing, the new partnership is geared towards job generation, take off youths from the street and improve our economic base as well as encourage export and development of businesses," Archibong added.
According to her, the Governor's approval of five thousand hectares of land and a space at the Ayade industrial park for the company and signing of the mou was an indication to give impetus for the company to move faster.
Earlier the chairman and chief executive of the company, Alh. Tajuddeen Dantata, represented by the company's General Manager, Corporate Service Sanusi Nature described Cross River as a state of aroma of opportunities with the Governor working the talk.
He said the MOU provides opportunity for the company to engage thousands of farmers and indigenes who will be directly employed across the different value chain to improve their livelihood, adding that under the partnership, the company will venture in the production of rice, maize, soya bean, cotton and groundnut.
"After a tour of the state, we were able to identify and synergies key areas of partnership, and cross River has the needed and biggest land size in the Niger delta".
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" Dantata will be a positive partner of the state, by engaging and sustaining the traditional marketers in the state, through this, there will be progress in revenue generation, promote peace and security. He noted.
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The open source Apache CouchDB database is among the most popular NoSQL technologies in use today.
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The distance you drive or take public transit to work can vary dramatically based on where you live.
Analysing location data from commuters in 933 metros with a population of at least 100,000, researchers from StreetLight Data found the places where residents travel the longest distances to work. In total, they looked at the median, round-trip journeys of approximately 20 million commuters in September 2017.
The primary goal was to study the links between three socioeconomic factors – income, education level, and rent prices – and commute length, according to Laura Schewel, CEO of StreetLight Data.
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While the study measured commute length for all types of transit (from biking to walking to driving), it doesn't look at how access to public transport correlates with commute length. However, Schewel does note that places with exceptionally long commutes tend to be in rural areas without access to major public transit systems.
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Abel's place in his familiar, mouse world has always been secure; he had an allowance from his mother, a comfortable home, and a lovely wife, Amanda. But one stormy August day, furious flood water carry him off and dump him on an uninhabited island. Despite his determination and stubborn resourcefulness--he tried crossing the river with boats and ropes and even on stepping-stones--Abel can't find a way to get back home. Days, then weeks and months, pass. Slowly, his soft habits disappear as he forages for food, fashions a warm nest in a hollow log, models clay statues of his family for company, and continues to brood on the problem of how to get across the river--and home. Abel's time on the island brings him a new understanding of the world he's separated from. Faced with the daily adventure of survival in his solitary, somewhat hostile domain, he is moved to reexamine the easy way of life he had always accepted and discovers skills and talents in himself that hold promise of a more meaningful life, if and when he should finally return to Mossville and his dear Amanda again. Abel's Island is a 1976 New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Book of the Year and Outstanding Book of the Year, and a 1977 Newbery Honor Book.Binding Type: PaperbackAuthor: William SteigPublisher: Square FishPublished: 10/02/2007ISBN: 9780312371432Pages: 117Weight: 0.25lbsSize: 7.45h x 5.42w x 0.35dAccelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 101 / Abel's IslandReading Level: 5.9 / Interest Level: Middle Grade / Point Value: 3
Abel's place in his familiar, mouse world has always been secure; he had an allowance from his mother, a comfortable home, and a lovely wife, Amanda. But one stormy August day, furious flood water carry him off and dump him on an uninhabited island. Despite his determination and stubborn resourcefulness--he tried crossing the river with boats and ropes and even on stepping-stones--Abel can't find a way to get back home.
Days, then weeks and months, pass. Slowly, his soft habits disappear as he forages for food, fashions a warm nest in a hollow log, models clay statues of his family for company, and continues to brood on the problem of how to get across the river--and home.
Abel's time on the island brings him a new understanding of the world he's separated from. Faced with the daily adventure of survival in his solitary, somewhat hostile domain, he is moved to reexamine the easy way of life he had always accepted and discovers skills and talents in himself that hold promise of a more meaningful life, if and when he should finally return to Mossville and his dear Amanda again.
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African CEOS expressed optimism about their business and economic growth over the next 12-18 months. A new survey of African CEOs from 46 countries conducted by PAFTRAC, the Pan-African Private Sector Trade and Investment Committee, found that found that CEOs were confident that their businesses will grow in the next year. A majority are also optimistic about the economic outlook of their industry. In addition, 87% of respondents believe that there will be in increase in intra-African trade as a result of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement.
The CEOs believe that the global recovery led by greater demand will drive Africa's economic recovery. Interestingly, their positivity stems more from their faith in international and regional trade strategies and agreements such as enhancement of trading opportunities through AfCFTA, rather than as a result of national economic recovery strategies like ease of lockdown restrictions or better national business climate.
Commenting on the survey, Pat Utomi, Chair of PAFTRAC, said, "The positive sentiment expressed by survey respondents demonstrates the potential of the AfCFTA and the eagerness of Africa's private sector to take advantage of the market access opportunities it offers. However, access to trade information, trade enabling infrastructure and trade finance emerged as key constraints that need to be addressed to ensure that intra-African trade opportunities are exploited for the benefit of African SME's.
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The respondents expressed strong faith in AfCFTA. Over 71% of respondents believe that the AfCFTA will encourage them to invest to grow their business regionally. More than half of respondents (57%) also believe that the AfCFTA will open up new markets to export regionally and provide the necessary frameworks to export more regionally (62%). The four top export destinations in Africa are South Africa (27%), Ghana (25%), Kenya (25%) and Nigeria (19%).
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Though the appetite for regional trade is strong, a majority of respondents placed access to trade finance and access to investment capital as the two biggest constraints when trading regionally.
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