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The 10 Most Haunted Cemeteries In The UK
July 14, 2018 6:00 AM ‐ Paranormal • Ghosts • Top Haunted Locations Lists
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Even in daylight graveyards can be terrifying places, in the dead of night cemeteries get even scarier, so it's no surprise so many have reported ghosts amongst the graves. Below are the ten creepiest churchyards and scariest cemeteries, those with the reputation of being the must haunted in the country.
10. West Norwood Cemetery Catacombs, London
Photo: © Stephen Richards
By far the creepiest cemetery on our list, probably thanks to the eerie catacombs which lie beneath it. The catacombs date back to 1837 and were built as a final resting place for London's dead in Victorian times. As if dank, dark tunnels aren't creepy enough, these are fill with lead-lined coffins and ghosts of the past.
9. All Saints Church, Patcham
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All Saints Church has a couple of notable spirits, those of Sir Charles Thomas Stanford and Lady Ellen Stanford.
One of the oldest recorded hauntings took place in 1956 when two local boys were ghost hunting in the graveyard, when they saw a dark hooded figure amongst the grave stones.
In the 1970s during a midnight mass on Christmas Eve, some of the congregation noticed a pale, sick-looking woman in one of the pews. She was so ill that someone approached her to offer help, but as they did she disappeared into thin air right in front of their eyes.
Others have reported seeing an apparition emerging from the south side of the building before disappearing somewhere in the churchyard. And passers-by claimed to have seen two women in medieval clothing pass through the tombs on the west side of the churchyard.
8. St. Dunstan's Church, Sutton
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The first church on our list dates back to 1864 but there has been a church on the site from Saxon times. Visitors have reported seeing a ghostly apparition in the church. It's believed he is a former priest of the church who died at the altar.
Another of the church's resident spooks has been seen in the churchyard and is the spirit of a young girl. It's thought that she fell to her death down a well that was once in the grounds of the church. Her ghost has been been seen walking through the old caretaker's shed.
Others have reported a dark and oppressive, negative energy at the bottom of the churchyard.
7. St. Nicholas Church, Pluckley
Photo: © Stephen Nunney
It's no surprise that St. Nicholas Church has a few ghost stories associated to it, as it's situated in Pluckley, which is said to be the most haunted village in the UK.
Locals have reported seeing lights coming from the church's windows late at night when no one is there. The ghost of a local miller is also said to haunt the churchyard in search of a lost love.
There's also the spirits of Lady Dering and the Lady in Red, a ghost who searches the churchyard for her lost baby.
6. Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh
Located in Old Town, Greyfriars Krikyard was first designated as a graveyard in 1562, and is the final resting place of many of the city's most notable former residents. Since 1998 there have been hundreds of reports of paranormal activity occurring in the graveyard, most of which revolves around the tomb of Sir George Mackenzie, a barrister who was responsible for the deaths of thousands of Covenanters in the 17th century.
It started after a homeless man broke into Mckenzie's large, black mausoleum in the graveyard one cold night to find shelter. Ever since there has been reports of poltergeist activity by visitors passing by the mausoleum. They claim to have been pushed, scratched and even cut.
The graveyard's other famous resident ghost is that of a dog named Bobby. It's said that the loyal pooch guarded over his owner's grave for several years after his owner's death. When the dog eventually died he was buried in an unconsecrated part of the cemetery. Ever since Bobby has been seen and heard still guarding his master's grave.
5. Thundridge Church, Ware
Also known as Cold Christmas Church, after a nearby lane, the building dates back to 1086 and has been the scene of several ghost sightings, the most famous of which occurred in 1978. It wasn't just one ghost that a local woman saw, but an army of ghosts marching out of the church.
The church has a reported history of witchcraft and, as recently as 2009, many have witnessed a ghostly growl coming from the bell tower. Others have seen a mysterious dark figure in a black robe moving silently between the graves in the churchyard.
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4. Glasgow Necropolis, Glasgow
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Glasgow is a city which is well known for its haunted locations, so it's no surprise that one of the city's cemetery on this list. Officially opened in 1840, there are around 250,000 people buried in the Necropolis, very few have gravestones, even fewer have names.
In the 1950s the cemetery made the news when a police man found a group of local children who had been roaming the cemetery for several nights armed with sharpened sticks and knives. The kids were hunting a vampire. He was said to be seven foot tall with metal teeth and had been blamed for the disappearance of two local children.
3. Arnos Vale Cemetery, Bristol
The first burial took place at Arnos Vale Cemetery in 1839, it's a Grade II listed site of special historic interest.
The cemetery is haunted by two female ghosts and many people who visit the grounds have reported feeling an overwhelming sense of sadness.
One of the women is reported to be a black female figure who is often spotted crying over the death of her husband who was killed in the First World War.
The other apparition seen at the cemetery, is seen crying and panicked after she was supposedly buried alive there.
2. Highgate Cemetery, London
One of London's biggest cemeteries and a location which is said to have hosted occult rituals, witnessed witchcraft and secret meetings of Satanic cults. The site, which is designated Grade I on the list of English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, is also said to be home to a vampire and has countless ghost stories associated with it.
The apparitions spotted at the cemetery and the adjoining Swains Lane, include a shadowy figure in a tall hat, the ghost of a cyclist seen working his way up a steep incline, and a woman in white. In a letter in the local newspaper, the Highgate Express & Hampstead, one witness said that his car broke down near the cemetery and he saw a hideous face peering through the bars of the cemetery's gate.
Others have reported bells ringing and voices calling from within the cemetery at night, and it's no surprise considering that more than 170,000 of London's dead are buried here.
1. St. James Cemetery, Liverpool
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St. James's Cemetery, situated behind Liverpool Cathedral, is said to be one of the most haunted locations in Liverpool. The Grade I Historic Park and urban burial site dates back to 1936 and has made the news in recent years after reports of ghostly sightings.
A video was recently posted on Facebook which appears to show a silvery white figure on a path running through the gardens. The ghostly figure seems to appear and disappear.
Others have seen the ghost of MP William Huskisson leaving his grand mausoleum where he was laid to rest in 1830, after he was run over by George Stephenson's Rocket locomotive. There's also said to be a woman in black who's been seen gliding towards a tomb that was ransacked by grave-robbers in the 1970s.
This is an ever changing, dynamically updated page. Haunted locations may move up or down the list as new locations are added to our database and scores are reviewed to reflect new activity.
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The Electoral Commission | Definition, Features & Functions
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1 The Electoral Commission | Definition, Features, Functions & Problems
2 What is an Electoral Commission?
3 Features of Electoral Commission
4 Functions of the Electoral Commission
4.1 Demarcation of Constituencies
4.2 Registration of Voters and Display of Voters Register
4.3 Registration of Political Parties
4.4 Polling of Votes
4.5 Counting of Votes
4.6 Certification of Results
4.7 Education of Voters and Publicity
4.8 Recruitment and Discipline of Electoral Officials
4.9 Procurement, Custody and Distribution of Electoral Materials
4.10 Advisory Services to Government on Electoral Issues
4.11 Related
The Electoral Commission | Definition, Features, Functions & Problems
What is an Electoral Commission?
An Electoral Commission is a body responsible for organising and conducting elections in a political system. It can also be seen as an independent and impartial body responsible for conducting and organising all elections in a given country.
As said in our previous article, some countries establish electoral commissions to conduct elections into political offices.
In some countries, there is only one central electoral body while few others have several electoral commissions. Yet the local government serves as the electoral umpire in a country like the USA.
Nigeria, for example, has both a central electoral commission and state electoral commissions which are responsible for the organisation and conduct of elections at different levels in the political system.
Features of Electoral Commission
Features of electoral commissions includes the following;
Organizing and Conducting Elections – It is the body responsible for organising and conducting all elections in a political system.
Free and Fair Election – The commission is responsible for the conduct of free and fair election in a country.
Announcing of Election Results – it has the sole power of announcing election results.
Independent Body – It is an independent and impartial electoral body.
Controlled and Headed by a Chairman – The commission is controlled by the chairman while other members are appointed.
Fixed Tenure of Office – The members of this commission have a fixed tenure of office.
Resident Commissioner – There resident commissioners for each states of the federation.
A Neutral Body – It is a neutral body and should be non-partisan in outlook.
It is Guided by the Constitution – This commission has the backing of the law in all its dispensation and actions.
Honesty and Fairplay – The Commission should be honest and just in its decision-making especially with the conduct of the elections.
Functions of the Electoral Commission
The Electoral Commission performs largely similar functions in every country. They include the following:
Demarcation of Constituencies
The Electoral Commission delimits of demarcates the constituencies. It is usually done on a regular basis. In Ghana, the delimitation of constituencies is carried out every 7 years or within 12 months after a census.
The 1999 Constitution of Federal Republic of Nigeria, for example, stipulates what constitutes a constituency in Nigeria, Section 73(1) of the constitution gives Electoral Commission powers to review constituency every 10 years.
Registration of Voters and Display of Voters Register
A major function of an electoral body is the registration of voters. Ideally, the exercise should be done on a regular basis and should be carried out by full-time civil service employees.
It also displays the voters register for the electorate to raise objections on pin point names that should not be on the list. The rigging of election begins with the registration of voters and it is therefore a highly political process.
Registration of Political Parties
The Electoral Commission registered political parties or their symbols. It is a regular and continuous exercise.
Polling of Votes
The commission makes arrangement for voters to cast their votes. The responsibility for allowing or refusing to allow a registered voter to vote is a great responsibility.
Counting of Votes
The counting of votes polled at polling stations and other designated centres is also the responsibility of the commission.
Certification of Results
The commission ensures that the results of elections certified and released. the success or failure of an Electoral Commission depends largely on its ability to perform this function well.
Education of Voters and Publicity
It is the responsibility of the commission to educate voters on issues pertaining to elections including registration, confirmation of names on electoral register, and how to mark the ballot papers.
It also informs the public about the activities of the commission and arrangements for elections. This is without prejudice to the role of political parties as change agents and educators of their members.
Recruitment and Discipline of Electoral Officials
The commission appoints, trains and disciplines its own staff. Because of its huge responsibilities, the commission is bound to use thousands of full-time and part-time employees although most of them are usually temporary officials.
This creates problems of discipline, as it is difficult for the commission to discipline people who are not its own permanent staff and who may have their own hidden interest.
Procurement, Custody and Distribution of Electoral Materials
The commission uses electoral materials such as registration forms, voters' cards, ballot papers, indelible ink, and resort sheets. These are essentially security materials which have to be kept in safe custody if they are not to fall into the wrong hands.
The commission ensures not only the procurement and safekeeping of these items but also their distribution to the polling stations where they are needed.
Advisory Services to Government on Electoral Issues
The commission also serves as an advisory body to government on electoral matters.
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Appeal Decision: David R Lewis vs. Independent Newspapers
DECISION: APPLICATION FOR LEAVE TO APPEAL
[1] Mr David Robert Lewis ("applicant") seeks leave to appeal the Ruling of the Ombudsman dated 5 February 2016 dismissing applicant's complaints against Independent Newspapers ("respondent").
[2] The complaints followed two articles, the second being a follow-up or a continuation, of the first. The stories were reporting the views of one Plum who had been in Hitler's army during the Second World War. The applicant saw the articles as a "serialisation of a self-confessed member of the Hitler Youth". The applicant is a member of the Jewish Community living in the country. He says the serialisation of Plum's own experiences reduces the Jews and Jewish Community to mere "objects of history", thereby infringing their dignity. He also says that Plum is cast as "a mere accessory, an innocent victim caught up in historical events … beyond his control", even though he had not objected to the events (the Holocaust and torture of Jews).
[3] The applicant's complaints were accurately captured in the Ombudsman's Ruling:
"He says that these stories discriminated against him, since they represented:
· an extraordinary serialisation of a self-confessed member of the Hitler Youth …;
· a reiteration of the philosophy of Nazidom and its antecedents in German philosophy…..
· a failure to moderate, publish, consult and include the narrative of Jews, … …
· inappropriate content considering world events and especially the events of 13 November 2015; and
· incitement of hatred against the Jewish community and other cultural, linguistic and religious communities … …
Lewis adds that the journalist did not get comment from the Jewish community."
[4] The respondent contended that the articles were not written to portray Plum in a positive light but to present a different view of the events of the war; from the perspective of a 11 year old, to 17; did not seek to romanticise or justify the Holocaust but to vent out the view of those German people forced to be part of the Nazi regime. Plum's views were critical of the Nazi regime; his views were put in inverted commas as his own and that the interview with him was set up 5 days before the Paris massacre (an event applicant referred to apparently to show lack of sensitivity). Applicant, who submitted two lengthy affidavits, also complained that Plum denigrated the Jewish Community by saying that "God is not on the side of the Jews, because Hitler killed them all" (more about this later) and by insinuating that they are not God's chosen people. Respondent argued that the above phrase is commonly used in both Jewish and Christian publications.
[5] In his application for leave to appeal, the applicant argues that the Ombudsman has been wrong in his analysis of the matter; he attacks the Ruling in many respects. On the other hand, the respondent supports the Ruling and the reasons behind it. I have read the Ruling and its analysis of the complaints carefully. I do not find fault with it. I need not repeat what the Ombudsman has said. Here lies the fundamental difference between the applicant on the one hand, and the respondent and the Ombudsman on the other: applicant's complaints are based on his own interpretation of the articles as well as his own apparently good knowledge of the history about the Second World War and the Holocaust. They are not based on what actually appears in the articles. For example, he says his"objection is in reference to the sentiment and nostalgic manner in which the subject of the articles (Mr Plum) views his training, education and interaction (as a teenager soldier)." The applicant infers nostalgia, whereas what Mr Plum said could equally be interpreted as a demonstration of genuinely inspired desire to reveal to all how the Nazi's went so far as to use children like him. One would therefore need a huge jump to come to the kind of inference the applicant makes from the articles. There is therefore much to be said for respondent's argument that the applicant "has thus exaggerated the effect of the articles on the ordinary reader". Only a reader like the applicant with a deep knowledge of the relevant history can place onto the articles the kind of interpretation he does; but not an average reader, for whom the articles were meant. The interpretation applicant places on Plum's statement that God does not like Jews because He let Hitler kill them, does not amount to denigration of the Jews; it is the kind of lament a bereaved parent would make, to ask God, "if you loved me, why did you let my child die!" The things applicant is complaining about, are really not in the articles, but are a product of his own interpretation, based on his special knowledge of the relevant history. As the Ombudsman says, there is for example no reference in the articles to Baerenfaenger, or other issues alluded to by the applicant. The articles were a presentation of Mr Plum's views, which were unique; moreover, they were presented as his own and not of the respondent. I too do not agree with applicant's interpretation of the texts and his conclusions.
[6] For the above reasons as well as those given by the Ombudsman, I am of the view that the applicant has no reasonable prospects of success before the Appeals Committee of the Press Council. The application is therefore turned down.
Dated this 28th day of March 2016
Judge B M Ngoepe, Chair, Appeals Panel
ED NOTE: The actual complaint makes a distinction between those Jews who believe in the Covenant and those who do not. Although the complainant, a non-Zionist, does not himself accept the central narrative surrounding the Burning Bush, he supports the rights of those who do. Ngoepe's decision unfortunately redacts the submission and does not record this important distinction.
ED NOTE: The second article on Plum clearly refers to Baerenfaenger and also close ties to Adolf Hitler alongside a narrative demonstrating Plum's prowess or lack thereof with a rifle. The statement is inaccurate to say the least and grounds for inferring bias.
The complainants submissions to the Ombudsman and Judge Ngoepe are available below.
Appeal Petition
Rebuttal of INM Appeal Submission
Affidavit Press Ombud 1
Written by davidrobertlewis 1 Comment Posted in Censorship, Civil Rights, Media, Uncategorized	Tagged with Nazi, Press Council, South Africa
Apartheid and the Nazis
AFTER years of litigation in which the Truth & Reconciliation Commission Report was rubbished by a corrupt judge acting on behalf of the Labour Court of South Africa, I am slowly being vindicated regarding my assertion of the connection between Verwoerd's apartheid and the Nazi science of eugenics. This is not because there is ample evidence in the Truth & Reconciliation Final Report, but rather because this taboo subject is now being discussed openly in the Afrikaner press, who until now, have managed to squash any debate in the public sphere which conceivably might lead to an acknowledgement of guilt and an apology to South Africans.
Here is the original article by prof Russel Botman regarding the connection between Nazism and Apartheid. The Nazi "Fischer Tools" were used for race classification purposes under apartheid .http://www.rapport.co.za/Weekliks/Nuus/Die-Nazis-le-agter-maar-wat-le-voor-20130426.
Followed by an opinion piece by Leopold Scholtz in Die Burger http://www.dieburger.com/opinie/2013-05-03-maties-bekyk-wr-die-nazis and a letter questioning if this is legitimate research http://www.dieburger.com/opinie/2013-05-08-van-die-verlede-kn-n-mens-nie-wegkom
Yesterdays follow up article by Leopold Scholtz attempting to relocate apartheid and nazi connections to the margins of German Romanticism, while denying any real connection in the form of a familiar denial, takes the cake http://www.dieburger.com/opinie/2013-06-12-forum-spore-van-apartheid
Here is an English translation of Prof Kees van der Waal's criticism of Leopold Scholtz's article, Apartheid thinking in academia
Good report by Dan Newling of Times Higher Education providing greater depth to the story and the backlash in the Afrikaner press.
But even as Robins, Walters and colleagues set out on their journey of discovery, they have already experienced a backlash in South Africa's Afrikaans-language media.
"There is anger at the suggestion that volkekunde's academic proponents may have been motivated by racial hatred and outrage at the argument that apartheid could have drawn inspiration from Nazism."
Written by davidrobertlewis 1 Comment Posted in Apartheid	Tagged with Apartheid, Eugenics, Nazi, South Africa


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Daniil Kvyat fears his F1 future is bleak amid Toro Rosso struggle
By Ian Parkes,	Mitchell Adam
Published on Saturday July 30th 2016
Toro Rosso driver Daniil Kvyat admits his future in Formula 1 might not be "bright" if he cannot reverse his current form slump.
The Russian finished on the podium in China in the third grand prix of the season, but lost his Red Bull drive to Max Verstappen after the next race.
Since joining Toro Rosso, Kvyat has scored just two points, with new team-mate Carlos Sainz Jr scoring 26 in the same period.
After qualifying 19th for the German Grand Prix, which will become 18th after Romain Grosjean's grid penalty, in a "shit session" Kvyat conceded he had to reverse the slump to remain in F1, especially given Red Bull's ruthless attitude.
"It's looking very bad now, and if it continues like this then I don't think anything bright is ahead," he said.
"I just need to get things going, and once I do that, then it will be fine.
"It's not like I'm having the most pleasant time in the world, it's not easy, but it's not an excuse.
"Everyone has hard times. If you're good, you come out of it, if you're not good enough, you just die."
Kvyat said even F1's summer break, and the scope to get away and understand the situation, might not be enough.
"I don't know what I need," he said.
"I just need a feeling with the car. I don't have it at the moment.
"When it comes back it should be much better. I can't remember the last time I had a good feeling with any car, so I don't know what's going on.
"It seems like my window of working is very narrow. I need to work on expanding on it, but it's not easy."
Kvyat was ninth and 12th in the opening two practice sessions, in what he described "a good Friday for the first time in a while".
But on Saturday afternoon he was six tenths and seven places behind Sainz in Q1, qualifying between the Manors.
"I can't say it's just oversteer or understeer, it's a combination of things," he said.
"It's different balance issues in a different part of the corner that makes me lose confidence, and I just need to understand where to put it, to shuffle it around, and the right moments will come.
"I've nearly always found solutions, and that's what I will work on. I feel like a solution is not far away, even if it looks really bad on paper.
"The pace was better on the Friday on long runs, I've not much to lose anyway, so I will try to go for it tomorrow.
"I just don't have any feeling in the car at the moment, and I know when I have a feeling with the car there are not many drivers who can beat me.
"But I don't have the feeling so I am very easy to beat at the moment. This is how it is."
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A: I don't know of a way to clone a repository and only get default, but I think 'hg archive' might be close to what you want?

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Bruins Start Great, But Stumble Late in Loss to Lynbrook
Andrew Bensch Posted on POSTED 01:00 AM, May 2, 2018
Despite star pitcher Tyler Kennedy developing a minor arm injury that kept him off the mound, the Santa Clara Bruins haven't had much of a problem when it comes to pitching.
On Tuesday afternoon at Lynbrook, Connor Valory stepped up and kept his team in the game in his three innings of work. The Vikings didn't score until the third inning after the Bruins took a 2-0 lead with a run in the first and another in the second.
Lynbrook would tie things up in the third with only one ball getting to the outfield. The wheels came off for the Bruins in the fifth. They left two guys stranded in scoring position in the top half and then gave up two runs, one unearned, in the bottom. Lynbrook would add an extra insurance run in their half of the sixth, winning by a 5-2 final.
"We were aggressive the first three innings, we got runners on, we made things happen, stole some bases and [the Vikings] were throwing the ball around," remarked Assistant Coach Pedro Martinez. "We were putting the ball in play, but the turning point, in my opinion, was the third inning when were up 2-0 and we come up empty when we had runners at second and third. Then another situation in the fifth. In a tie game we have runners at second and third with one out and we come up empty again. Just a game of missed opportunities."
The fifth inning rally that fell short was jump started by outfielder Noah Dembowski who crushed a ball over the center fielder's head in deep center. Unfortunately, the runner at first base didn't get a good read on the ball and was held up at third instead of coming into score the go-ahead run. Both runners would be stranded to end the inning.
"We actually had a hit and run going on that pitch, so I knew I had to swing," acknowledged Dembowski on his double. "I tried to clear my mind before that pitch and hit the ball hard like I'm supposed to in that situation. Luckily, I got it over the outfielder's head for a double."
After failing to score in the fifth inning, the bottom of the fifth seemed to be in control as the Bruins retired the first two Lynbrook batters. Quickly thereafter a single and a double gave the Vikings a 3-2 lead. Then an error in the infield allowed another run to score. At that point the wind seemed to come out of the Bruins' sails.
"When they went up 4-2, we definitely got pretty flat," admitted Bruins center fielder Bailey Mungaray. "We should have been able to be better though, we have been in that situation before and made a comeback. We did that just last week against Gunn, from an even worse deficit."
The loss drops Santa Clara to 4-8 in league play. They have three more games remaining on their schedule. They play a rematch with Gunn on at home on Thursday, May 3 before rounding out the campaign at home against Saratoga on May 8 and at Monta Vista on May 10.
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Preventing HCAI: go long or go wide?
There seems to be a general movement away from targeted, pathogen-based precautions (principally screening and isolation) in the USA. This changing professional opinion was clear from the recent SHEA conference, where several leading experts gave what amounted to a collective justification for abandoning contact precautions for MRSA.
The update of the SHEA Compendium of Strategies to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections in Acute Care Hospitals is accompanied by a commentary from a group of leading US figures titled 'Approaches for preventing HCAI: Go long or go wide'. In the commentary, the authors weigh the evidence and opinion for so-called 'vertical' (aka targeted) vs. 'horizontal' (aka universal) interventions (Table).
Table: Go long or go wide? Examples of targeted and universal interventions (adapted from Wenzel & Edmond, via Septimus et al.).
The commentary outlines the potential drawbacks of targeted approaches (such as fewer visits from healthcare workers and feelings of isolation), but doesn't spend a lot of time discussing the potential drawbacks of universal approaches. For example, "isolation fatigue", where a procedure loses its impact if it has to be applied to every patient. And then there's the possibility of resistance when performing universal decolonization. This is particularly worrysome when using antibiotics, but could also be a problem when using biocides such as chlorhexidine.
I'm not ready to abandon pathogen-based targeted interventions just yet. Conceptually, it just does not make sense. If you have a patient with MRSA and a respiratory virus, chances are they will become a 'super-spreader'. Those who favour universal approaches do make some provision for exceptional cases that really should be identified and isolated via a 'syndromic' approach to isolation: crudely, only isolate patients when they're oozing. However, this syndromic approach would likely miss our 'super-spreading' patient, which may well result in an MRSA outbreak – that we could all do without.
Furthermore, if you have a patient who is colonized with CRE, are you brave enough to take no special precautions, as would be the case for a 'universal only' approach? The success of this strategy would depend on a high level of compliance with standard precautions such as hand hygiene and environmental cleaning and disinfection. Whilst sound in theory, this just doesn't happen in the trenches; your facility is above average if your hand hygiene compliance rate is the right side of 40%. Whilst still not 100%, hand hygiene compliance is higher when patients are placed in isolation, most likely because there's a stronger psychological trigger to comply with hand hygiene.
It's important to note that targeted and universal approaches are by no means mutually exclusive. For example, on our ICU in London, we have been using universal chlorhexidine decolonization for a decade combined with targeted screening and isolation, and have seen a dramatic reduction in the spread of MRSA.
So, should we go long or go wide in the prevention of HCAI? The answer is both. We should optimize case for all patients, which means careful standard precations with liberal application of chlorhexidine and tight restriction of antibiotics. But we should also identify those with communicable pathogens and segregate them from others. In this regard, we have the weight of history on our side.


I got on my flight, just as Eduardo was going into surgery with a plan to call the ground for updates from the inflight phone. This was before wifi and of course, the inflight phone was broken, I checked with the stewardess but there was simply no way for me to contact the ground. This set up for a long 8 hour flight from London to Chicago, wondering if he had survived the surgery.
I didn't watch any inflight movies and just hoped that the medical team would pull him through… my mind was just reeling with memories and everything we were working on. I had been filming him a lot for a new outdoor cooking show and I simply thought, if they manage to pull Eduardo through we should film - this could be an epic documentary.
When I landed in the USA, I learned that he was alive and I called by best friend Bex in England to tell her the good news. We had the usual supportive friend conversation, serious, sad, intense, but at the end of it I told her that I was going to film his hospital stay… with an idea to create a documentary called 'Charged by a Bear'. She laughed and simply said 'now I know I don't have to worry about you, you are still you'. My best friend is one of the most wonderful women I know, so with her approval for my filming idea, I felt more confident in it and thus the documentary began.
If you know the story of how Eduardo was injured, you will know why 'Charged by a Bear' is a fun play on words. I mean when we are out in the wilderness we always carry bear spray and are wary of being 'Charged by a Bear' but charged by electricity through a bear… it's insane, but at least it set up for an easy title.
The idea was to capture what recovery looks like, and I feel that was achieved. The other reason I filmed is because you can always delete but you cannot capture content later… during these times it's so intense and Eduardo was on so many drugs that I worried he would question decisions we made later, i.e. the decision to amputate his hand. Having photos and footage of what he was dealing with puts to rest any lingering questions, which always helps moving forward.
My initial plan was to be on the documentary production team and be part of 'making the film' but that rapidly changed when Director Phill Baribeau saw how poignant the role of the caregiver is. I was in essence kicked off the team, but in the best way possible - my role then switched, I gave all of the footage I shot to the documentary, became uninvolved in the 'making of the film', signed away my creative rights, put everything in the trusted hands of Phill and became a subject of the film.
Now, when I look back, picking up the camera has so much more meaning… it's not just an intriguing survival story, but a story that can be used as a roadmap to anyone going through mass trauma. The footage really shows the raw nature of recovery, it's an arduous journey but the transition he has gone through is phenomenal and sharing this will hopefully show others that, with some serious perseverance, you can get back to a life you enjoy, a different life, but you can own it and make it pretty damn awesome.
We decided to shorten the name of the documentary from 'Charged by a Bear' to 'Charged' because although he was 'Charged by a Bear' the main take away is that he is still 'Charged' for life… I truly hope this film inspires others to overcome whatever they are dealing with, 'get charged' and get back to this phenomenal thing we call life.


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Tech Upstart Seeks New Era With Dispute Resolution Shakeup
By Brian Baxter
Ex-legal chiefs Richard Lee, Collin Williams lead enterprise
New Era company seeks fix to 'broken' dispute resolution
New Era ADR announced its debut Tuesday as a legal technology company that aims to shake up the relatively staid world of alternative dispute resolution.
New Era said it has agreements with the National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals and Denver-based Judicial Arbiter Group Inc. to provide arbitrators and mediators for its nascent platform, a fully-virtual arena that seeks to resolve disputes within 100 days and save clients up to 90% in litigation time and expenses.
The growth and acceptance of remote work and a backlog of court cases from the coronavirus pandemic helped kick-start the Chicago-based startup's plans for the new medium to mediate disputes out of court.
"The pandemic wasn't a cause, but a catalyst, for the adoption of online dispute resolution," said New Era co-founder and CEO Richard Lee.
While New Era has yet to score any clients, Lee noted his startup is in "advanced talks" with 10 to 12 organizations about establishing a pipeline of cases to utilize its platform for a flat fee.
He added that several law firms and organizations have also written New Era into almost 700 contracts, an important development since "arbitration is most commonly adopted through contractual agreements."
Lee formed New Era after spending a half-dozen years as legal chief for Civis Analytics Inc., a political data science shop spun out of President Barack Obama's 2012 reelection campaign.
Civis, also based in Chicago, received venture funding from former Google LLC executive chairman Eric Schmidt, a prominent proponent of big data.
Photo courtesy of New Era
Lee credited his fellow New Era co-founder, former Reverb.com LLC general counsel Collin Williams, for coming up with the idea for the company four years ago.
"The process of dispute resolution is broken," Williams said in a statement. "In the 21st century we should not be spending years to resolve disputes."
Reverb, an online musical instrument marketplace sold for $275 million in cash to Etsy Inc. in late 2019, hired Williams as legal chief two years earlier. The former in-house lawyer at Oracle Corp. previously spent a decade at Greenberg Traurig.
Over the last two years, Williams and Lee worked to refine their product and build a business model. Their one hang-up was how to get corporate clients and often technology-averse law firms to accept an online platform.
Then came Covid-19, which Lee said created an "interesting tailwind" for New Era as it brought a renewed focus on the amount of time and money it takes to resolve simple business disputes.
Litigation, as Lee sees it, is usually a distraction.
"It's a problem that I've personally experienced as GC of two different companies," said Lee, who prior to joining Civis in 2014 was legal chief for LiveVol Inc., a technology company sold the following year to CBOE Global Markets Inc.
Williams, who is now New Era's chairman, added that "we need technology that assists litigants and their attorneys in actually getting to a resolution, not milling about in the system for years."
A New Forum
Lee compared dispute resolution to the surging telehealth sector as being ready to embrace new ways of doing business as a result of the pandemic.
Within the past few months Lee said he's spoken with judges, mediators, and litigators who have become accustomed to working remotely from states like Florida and have little desire to return to in-person meetings.
Many courts also remain closed due to Covid-19 with "only a trickle of civil cases" going through, said Lee, adding that when courts do fully reopen, criminal cases will be given first priority to move forward.
Lee said most litigants in the estimated 19 million civil disputes filed in the U.S. each year want to present their best arguments and evidence to get a decision in a realistic timeline, not become bogged down in discovery or procedural battles.
"We want to make the process more amicable," said Lee, who also works with the Legal Services Corp. and hopes that New Era can eventually help bridge the access-to-justice gap affecting lower-income communities.
New Era's resolution platform, which includes video conferencing, multi-party calendaring, and document management, has secured in-house endorsements.
The platform "gives clients the long-desired forum that enables much faster and more efficient dispute resolution," said a statement from Lisa Young, a former top lawyer at legal staffing company Axiom Global Inc. who in January became general counsel for online lender LendingTree LLC.
Lee and Williams' fellow New Era co-founders include Shane Mulrooney, of counsel at Chicago's Litwin Law and a former general counsel at Home Chef, a meal-kit startup sold for $700 million in 2018 to Kroger Co., and former Civis director of compliance and legal operations R. Michelle Tyler.
Litwin Law and Croke Fairchild Morgan & Beres, a Chicago-based boutique founded by former Sidley Austin lawyers, are serving as outside counsel to New Era as it gets off the ground, Lee said.
New Era has also assembled a board of advisers that includes University of Chicago School of Law deputy dean Anthony Casey and serial entrepreneurs David Kalt, Peter Kadens, and Trunk Club Inc. co-founder and CFO Kevin Price.
Kalt, a founder and CEO of Reverb and OptionsXpress Holdings Inc., and Kadens, chairman of the nonprofit Kadens Family Foundation and a founder and chairman of commercial cleaning startup Azenity Labs, are also investors in New Era along with Price, Alumni Ventures Group LLC, and Motivate Venture Capital.
To contact the reporter on this story: Brian Baxter in New York at bbaxter@bloomberglaw.com
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Chris Opfer at copfer@bloomberglaw.com
John Hughes in Washington at jhughes@bloombergindustry.com
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March for the Monarchy
This week I thought I'd give you a list of all the births, marriages, deaths, burials and coronations that have occurred for the Monarchs and Consorts of England, Scotland and the United Kingdom.
1st:
Birth month, or it could be April, of future Queen Margaret of Scotland, 1283, Tonsberg, Norway.
Margaret Maid of Norway. Attributed: By Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0, httpscommons.wikimedia.orgwindex.phpcurid=18837762
Birth of future Queen Consort Caroline of Ansbach, 1683, Ansbach, Holy Roman Empire. Consort of King George II.
Death of Queen Consort Anne of Denmark, 1619, Hampton Court Palace. Consort of King James VI.
Birth of future King Robert II of Scotland, 1316, Paisley Abbey.
Death of Queen Consort Matilda of Bolougne, 1152, Hedingham Castle, Essex. Consort of King Stephen.
4th:
Death of Queen Consort Joan of England, 1238, Havering-Atte-Bower, England. Consort of King Alexander II of Scotland.
Coronation of Queen Consort Phillipa of Hainault, 1330, Westminster Abbey. Consort of King Edward III.
Reign 1 ends of King Henry VI after being deposed, 1461.
Reign 1 ends of Queen Consort Margaret of Anjou, 1461. Consort of King Henry VI.
Reign 1 begins of King Edward IV, 1461.
Birth of future King Henry II, 1133, Le Mans, France.
Burial of Queen Mary II, 1695, Westminster Abbey.
Burial 1 of King Richard II, 1400, Kings Langley. Moved to Westminster Abbey in 1413.
Death of King William III, 1702, Kensington Palace.
Reign begins of Queen Anne, 1702.
Reign begins of Consort Prince George of Denmark, 1702.
10th:
Marriage of King Edward VII to Princess Alexandra of Denmark, 1863, St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.
Death of Queen Consort Anne Neville, 1485, Westminster. Consort of King Richard III.
Death of King Lulach of Scotland, 1058, Essie.
Birth of future King James IV, 1473, Stirling Castle.
Death of King Alexander II of Scotland, 1286, Kinghorn Ness, Fife.
End of reign of Queen Yolande of Dreux, 1236, consort of King Alexander II of Scotland.
Reign begins of Queen Margaret of Scotland, 1236.
Divorce of King David II of Scotland from Margaret Drummond, 1370
Reign ends of Scottish Queen Consort Margaret Drummond, 1370.
Death of King Henry IV, 1413, Westminster.
Reign ends of Queen Consort Joan of Navarre, 1413. Consort of King Henry IV.
21st:
Reign begins of King Henry V, 1413.
Death of former King Henry VI, 1471, Tower of London.
The Tower of London. Image courtesy of ancestryimages.com
22nd:
Coronation of Queen Consort Matilda of Bolougne, 1136, Consort of King Stephen.
23rd:
Birth of future Queen Consort Margaret of Anjou, 1430, Pont-A-Mousson, Lorraine, France. Consort of King Henry VI.
Death of Queen Elizabeth, 1603, Richmond Palace, Surrey.
Reign begins of King James VI, 1603.
Reign begins of Queen Consort Anne of Denmark, 1603, Consort of King James VI.
Death of Dowager Queen Consort Mary of Teck, 1953, Marlborough House, London. Consort of King George V.
Approximate start of the reign of King Malcolm II of Scotland 1005
Reign begins of King Robert the Bruce of Scotland, 1306.
Reign begins of Queen Consort Elizabeth de Burgh, 1306, Consort of King Robert I.
Coronation of King Robert I, 1306.
Coronation of Queen Consort Elizabeth de Burgh, 1306, Consort of King Robert 1.
Coronation of King James II of Scotland, 1437, Holyrood Abbey.
Burial of Queen Consort Anne Neville, 1485, Westminster Abbey. Consort of King Richard III.
Possible birth date of the future King Malcolm III, 1031, Scotland.
Coronation of King Robert II of Scotland, 1371.
Coronation of Queen Consort Eupemia de Ross, 1371. Consort of King Robert II.
Burial of King Richard III, 2015, Leicester Cathedral.
Death of King James VI, 1625, Theobalds House.
Reign begins of King Charles I, 1625.
Burial of King Alexander III, 1286, Dunfermline Abbey.
Death of Dowager of Queen Consort Elizabeth Bowes-Lyons, 2002, Royal Lodge, Windsor.
Burial of Dowager Queen Consort Mary of Teck, 1953, St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.
So that's March covered for you.


Alzheimer's is expected to double by 2060, impacting more than 15 million Americans in the next 40 years. In the United States only, 6 million people currently suffer from cognitive impairment.
The increase in dementia is mainly due to a large aging population along with a growing life expectancy. There is currently no cure and that is another reason dementia is expected to only balloon in the coming years. Right now, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ranks dementia as the 6th largest cause of death in the United States and it might just only rank higher in future years.
Once symptoms occur, there isn't a way to reverse it, but there are ways to mitigate the on-set of dementia. It is important to be aware of the symptoms and become educated about it.
Brain health is not as glamorized as physical health, but it is just as important for a long and healthy life. Since there is currently no cure, taking action when it comes to brain health is crucial and needs to be done on a consistent basis.
It isn't talked about much, but doing things to help prevent dementia is the next step to finding a way to deal with the spread of dementia.
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The U.S. spends a lot on health care, and our health care system is frequently criticized for poor health outcomes. The chart below is an example of evidence used to buttress this argument. It shows combinations of health care spending and life expectancy over time for the OECD countries. The U.S. appears to be a severe outlier and inferior to the other countries. A variation on this chart appeared on the home page of The Wall Street Journal this week. It accompanied (but was not part of) a good article by Joseph Walker in which he used 12 other charts in an effort to explain why the U.S. spends so much on health care. (Sorry, this link is probably gated.) Walker discusses several important cost factors, including third-party payments, tax treatment, and the deployment of expensive technology in the U.S. However, the claim that the U.S. is really an outlier is worth examining on other grounds.
The chart's construction suggests that a reliable link should exist between health care spending and life expectancy, but there are several reasons to question whether that is the case. U.S. life expectancy has been held down historically by high rates of smoking, but reduced smoking rates should help moderate the U.S. life expectancy gap in coming years. Obesity in the U.S. is a more persistent problem, especially for the poor, and an even bigger contributor to low U.S. life expectancy than smoking at present. (See this report for evidence on the contributions of smoking and obesity to shorter life expectancy for older adults.) Other contributors to low life expectancy in the U.S. include high motor-vehicle deaths and homicides, the latter attributable in large part to the war on drugs. All of these factors contribute to higher health care spending and directly reduce life expectancy.
Relative to consumption, health care spending in the U.S. is not an outlier, nor is spending on pharmaceuticals, physician/nursing compensation, and the levels of health price indices.
So the argument that the U.S. health care system is inferior to peer countries based on cross-county spending comparisons and life expectancy, to the extent that it holds up at all, is subject to strong qualifications. Inferior lifestyle choices, diets, and lack of exercise might be problematic in the U.S., but the healthcare system cannot be faulted based on spending levels relative to other OECD countries.
72,000 additional cancer deaths each year with the UKs survival rates.
Theoretically, the national spending figures could be adjusted for the cost of queuing, i.e. wait times. While Obamacare certainly increased wait times in the U.S., the adjustment would likely reduce or eliminate the spending advantages that several OECD countries appear to have over the U.S.
The performance of health care systems in many countries with single-payer systems or universal care is subject to challenge, as some of the statistics offered by Barakat demonstrate. In "The Truth About SwedenCare", Klaus Bernpaintner expresses his dismay at the romanticized view of health care in Sweden among so many Americans. His effort to convey the truth about Sweden's stultifying health care bureaucracy is illuminating. There are few private physician practices in Sweden. Care is generally rationed and waits are lengthy, and it is delivered by disinterested, centrally-assigned providers.
Bernpaintner calls this Sweden's health care "bread line", where people go to die. He mentions several other nightmarish features of health care in Sweden that Americans should hope to avoid. In particular, we should resist calls for a single-payer system, like Bernie Sanders' Medicare-For-All proposal. An analysis by Charles Blahous of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University has shown that it would increase federal spending by $32.6 trillion over ten years. This estimate is basically in-line with others mentioned by Blahous. Much of the additional federal spending would represent a transition away from private spending, a process that would be massively disruptive. However, the study gives the plan the benefit of several doubts by accepting the assumptions made by Sanders: 1) a huge saving in prescription drug costs; 2) a huge saving in administrative costs; 3) providers will happily accept Medicare reimbursement levels; and 4) new immigrants will not be attracted by an essentially free health care program. Fat chance. But given all of these questionable assumptions, total health care spending would fall even as the government takes on the massive new outlays. Take away just fantasy #3 and total national health care spending would rise, a swing of $700 billion by 2031.
The presumption that universal health care will improve quality and save lives is unsupported by any real evidence. Its proponents incorrectly assume that the uninsured do not get care at all. Providers might go uncompensated, but the uninsured can often get needed care with more immediacy than they could with the lengthy wait times typical of many single-payer systems. The quality of care is likely to deteriorate under a single-payer system given the stresses placed on providers, the highly regulated conditions under which they would be forced to operate, and restricted treatment options. And of course a single-payer system would suspend the price mechanism and any semblance of competition in the health care marketplace.
The health care system in the U.S. has massive problems, but they were created and exacerbated by a series of governmental intrusions on the marketplace over many years. A flourishing market requires choice for consumers and competition between providers—in both health care delivery and insurance coverage. It also requires a roll-back of regulation on providers and insurers. But as Cochrane emphasizes, such a marketplace can exist apart from a voluntary, tax-funded payer-of-last-resort.


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Q: Exact spacing between lines Is there a way to get the exact spacing between different parts of a document?
I know the question may sound a bit vague, so here's the context in which the question arose.
Here there is a code snippet to let ntheorem split a long theorem name in multiple lines. The code seems to be working fine, but introduces an extra spacing after the theorem name. On the other hand I tried to redefine the break theoremstyle using parbox. The spacing appears the same as in the default case but is smaller in case the theorem name is longer than a line. Here's a MWE of what I'm talking about
\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage[framed,thmmarks,thref, hyperref]{ntheorem}

\theoremstyle{break}
\theoremseparator{:}
\newtheorem{testt}{theorem}

\begin{document}

\begin{testt}[default style]
    body
\end{testt}

\makeatletter
\let\nobreakitem\item
\let\@nobreakitem\@item
\patchcmd{\nobreakitem}{\@item}{\@nobreakitem}{}{}
\patchcmd{\nobreakitem}{\@item}{\@nobreakitem}{}{}
\patchcmd{\@nobreakitem}{\@itempenalty}{\@M}{}{}
\patchcmd{\@xthm}{\ignorespaces}{\nobreak\ignorespaces}{}{}
\patchcmd{\@ythm}{\ignorespaces}{\nobreak\ignorespaces}{}{}

\renewtheoremstyle{break}%
  {\item{\theorem@headerfont
          ##1\ ##2\theorem@separator}\hskip\labelsep\relax\nobreakitem}%
  {\item{\theorem@headerfont
          ##1\ ##2\ (##3)\theorem@separator}\hskip\labelsep\relax\nobreakitem}
\makeatother

\begin{testt}[short name]
     solution I found online
\end{testt}

\begin{testt}[very very very very very very long theorem name, should be longer than one line]
     solution I found online
\end{testt}

\makeatletter
\renewtheoremstyle{break}%
  {\item[\rlap{\vbox{\hbox{\hskip\labelsep \theorem@headerfont
          ##1\ ##2\theorem@separator}\hbox{\strut}}}]}%
  {\item[\parbox{\textwidth}{\leftskip\labelsep \theorem@headerfont
          ##1\ ##2\ (##3)\theorem@separator}\hbox{\strut}]}
\makeatother

\begin{testt}[short name]
     my solution
\end{testt}

\begin{testt}[very very very very very very long theorem name, should be longer than one line]
     my solution
\end{testt}

\end{document}

And here is the results.

Now, I don't want to say "ok the spacing looks the same/looks different" but rather "ok the spacing is the same/is different". Is there a way to get the exact spacing between the lines without having to guess it?


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The Federal Court of Appeal has maintained the need for "certainty and stability" in tax treaties in R. v. Prévost Car, Inc. ruling.
At issue in the case was whether or not Netherlands-based holding company Prévost Holding B.V., the sole owner of Canadian bus manufacturer Prévost Car, Inc. was the beneficial owner for tax purposes. If the holding company was the beneficial owner — as ruled by the Tax Court of Canada in 2008's R. v. Prévost Car, Inc. — it would be subject to a five-per-cent-withholding tax as outlined in the 1986 Convention Between Canada and the Kingdom of the Netherlands for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with Respect to Taxes on Income.
"Counsel for the Crown has invited the court to determine that 'beneficial owner,' . . . 'mean the person who can, in fact, ultimately benefit from the dividend,'" wrote Federal appeal court Justice Robert Décary in the decision.
The Crown had argued the holding company was not the beneficial owner of Prévost Car, Inc. and was simply a holding company. Dividends from Prévost were actually paid through the holding company and ended up going to the Sweden-based Volvo and United Kingdom-based Henlys, which is now defunct. Volvo and Henlys had owned the holding company, and now only the Swedish automotive giant owes the company.
"The Crown, it seems to me, is asking the court to adopt a pejorative view of holding companies which neither Canadian domestic law, the international community nor the Canadian government through the process of objection, have adopted," says the ruling.
Under the Income Tax Act, Canadian companies that are not the beneficial owner would be required to withhold 25 per cent of dividends paid to non-resident shareholders and remit this amount to the Canada Revenue Agency on behalf of the non-resident.
"I think what [the judge] is doing is he is referring indirectly to the Supreme Court of Canada [R. v. Canada Trustco Mortgage Co. ruling], where they talked about the need for certainty of people's tax affairs," says William Innes, of Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP who argued on behalf of Prévost Inc.
Innes says part of his argument to the appeal court was a law, but not a Canadian statute, rather Sir Isaac Newton's Third Law of Motion, that every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Basically, if Canada is viewed as unfairly treating foreign companies investing here, how will Canadian companies be treated abroad? Will that hamper investment in Canada in the future?
Ironically, the federal government has been renegotiating tax treaties since the 1993 budget so all countries would be subject to between five- and 15-per-cent-withholding tax based on the share of the company. At the time the case began, Sweden's treaty was a flat 15 per cent which changed in 1996, and England a 10-per-cent rate ending in 2003. Both rates were reduced to five per cent for a company holding 25 per cent of the shares or 10-per-cent voting power of the Canadian subsidiary.
"Part of the case we were making was everybody knew these rates were going down, there was no magic to setting up this structure," Innes says. "It was two large companies, one from England and one from Sweden and they wanted a neutral base for this joint venture company.
Innes says it didn't end there either, even after the 1996 Convention Between Canada and Sweden for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with Respect to Taxes on Income was signed harmonizing the tax rates, the CRA still didn't want to pass on the five per cent rate.
Canadian Revenue Agency spokesperson Philippe Brideau told Canadian Lawyer InHouse the CRA is reviewing the decision and has until Apr. 27, 2009, to seek leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada.


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"They can keep their Bressons and their Cocteaus. The cinematic, modern marvelous is popular, and the best and most exciting films are, beginning with Méliès and Fantômas, the films shown in local fleapits, films which seem to have no place in the history of cinema." --Le Surréalisme au cinéma (1953) by Adonis A. Kyrou
A Trip to the Moon (1902) Georges Méliès
Georges Méliès (December 8, 1861 – January 21, 1938), full name Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès, was a French filmmaker famous for leading many technical and narrative developments in the earliest cinema. He is best-known for his film A Trip to the Moon.
3.1 Selected filmography
3.2 Currently available videorecordings
4 Videorecordings
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He was very innovative in the use of special effects. He accidentally discovered the stop trick animation, or substitution, in 1896, and was one of the first filmmakers to use multiple exposures, time-lapse photography, dissolves, and hand-painted colour in his films. Because of his ability to seemingly manipulate and transform reality with the cinematograph, Méliès is sometimes referred to as the "Cinemagician."
He was born in Paris, where his family manufactured shoes. Before making films, he was a stage magician at the Theatre Robert-Houdin. In 1895, he became interested in film after seeing a demonstration of the Lumière brothers' camera. In 1897, he established a studio on a rooftop property in Montreuil. Actors performed in front of a painted set as inspired by the conventions of magic and musical theater. He directed 531 films between 1896 and 1914, ranging in length from one to forty minutes. In subject matter, these films are often similar to the magic theater shows that Méliès had been doing, containing "tricks" and impossible events, such as objects disappearing or changing size.
His most famous film is A Trip to the Moon (Le voyage dans la Lune) made in 1902, which includes the celebrated scene in which a spaceship hits the eye of the man in the moon. Also famous is The Impossible Voyage (Le voyage à travers l'impossible) from 1904. Both of these films are about strange voyages, somewhat in the style of Jules Verne. These are considered to be some of the most important early science fiction films, although their approach is closer to fantasy. Agents of Thomas Edison bribed a theater owner in London for a copy of A Trip to the Moon. Edison then made hundreds of copies and showed them in New York City. Méliès received no compensation.
In addition horror cinema can be traced back to Georges Méliès's Le Manoir du diable (1896).
His 1899 short film Cleopatra was believed to be a lost film until a copy was discovered in 2005 in Paris.
In 1913 Georges Méliès' film company was forced into bankruptcy by the large French and American studios and his company was bought out of receivership by Pathé Frères. After being driven out of business Méliès became a toy salesman at the Montparnasse station. In 1932 the Cinema Society gave Méliès a home in Château d'Orly. Méliès did not grasp the value of his films, and with some 500 films recorded on cellulose, the French Army seized most of this stock to be melted down into boot heels during World War I. Many of the other films were sold to be recycled into new film. As a result many of these films do not exist today. In time, Méliès was rediscovered and honored for his work, eventually taking up stage performance.
Georges Méliès has been awarded the Légion d'honneur (Legion of honor).
Méliès died in Paris and was buried in the Père Lachaise Cemetery.
Selected filmography
Georges Méliès directed hundreds of films including the following. For a full filmography see Georges Méliès filmography.
Playing Cards (1896)
The Haunted Castle (1896)
Batteuse à vapeur (1896)
Bébé et fillettes (1896)
Le Bivouac (1896)
The Vanishing Lady / Escamotage d'une dame chez Robert Houdin (1896)
The House of the Devil / Le Manoir du diable (1896)
Boulevard des Italiens
Cleopatra (1899)
Cinderella / Cendrillon (1899)
The Dreyfus Affair / L'Affaire Dreyfus (1899)
Jeanne d'Arc (1900)
A Trip to the Moon / Le Voyage dans la lune (1902)
The Man With The Rubber Head / L'Homme à la tête de caoutchouc (1902)
Gulliver's Travels / Le Voyage de Gulliver à Lilliput et chez les Géants (1902)
The Inn Where No Man Rests / L'Auberge du Bon Repos (1903)
The Mystical Flame / La Flamme merveilleuse (1903)
Faust in Hell (1903)
Kingdom of the Fairies / Le Royaume des fées (1903)
The Impossible Voyage / Voyage à travers l'impossible (1904)
The Adventurous Automobile Trip (1904)
Hilarious Posters / Les Affiches en goguette (1905)
Palace of the Arabian Knights / Le Palais des Mille et une Nuits (1905)
Paris to Monte Carlo / Le Raid Paris-Monte Carlo en deux Heures (1905)
The Mysterious Retort / L'Alchimiste Parafaragamus ou La Cornue infernale (1906)
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea / 20.000 Lieues sous les mers (1907)
Humanity Through the Ages (1908)
Conquest of the Pole / A la conquête du pôle (1912)
Baron Munchausen's Dream / Les Hallucinations du baron de Münchausen (1911)
The Ranchman's Debt of Honor (1911 - USA)
The Knight of the Snows / Le Chevalier des Neiges (1912)
Cinderella or The Glass Slipper / Cendrillon ou La Pantoufle mystérieuse (1912)
The Ghost of Sulpher Mountain (1912 -USA)
The Prisoner's Story (1912 - USA)
Le Voyage de la famille Bourrichon (1913)
Currently available videorecordings
Due to a variety of factors, roughly 200 of Méliès's 531 films exist. These factors include Méliès's destruction of his original negatives, the French army's confiscation of his prints and the typical deterioration of the majority (an estimated 80 percent) of films made before 1950. New films have occasionally been discovered but the majority that were preserved come from the US Library of Congress, due to Gaston Méliès submitting paper prints of each frame of all new Star Films in order to preserve copyright when he set up the American branch of Star Films in 1902.<ref name=Wakeman2/>
George Méliès: First Wizard of Cinema (5-DVD, 173-Film Collection)
George Méliès Encore: New Discoveries 1896-1911 (26-Film supplement to the above 5-DVD Collection)
Films of George Méliès
The Great Train Robbery and Other Primary Works
Marvelous Méliès
Méliès Le Cinémagicien
Mes Mémoires
Pioneers of the French Cinema, Volume One
Videorecordings
Le Grand Méliès (1952) - The life of Georges Méliès is told in this biodrama, directed by Georges Franju. André Méliès plays the part of his own father.
The work of Georges Méliès has been referenced a number of times in film, television and fiction, including:
The 1956 film version of Around the World in Eighty Days features Le Voyage Dans La Lune at the Introduction.
In Jean-Luc Godard's 1967 film, La Chinoise, Guillaume (Jean-Pierre Léaud) prefaces a lecture on current events with a discussion of who, in French cinema, was the true originator of the filming of current events, the Lumière brothers or Méliès. Guillaume makes the argument that Méliès, rather than the Lumières, was the true originator of current event films in French cinema.
Queen's 1995 music video "Heaven for Everyone" features clips from Méliès' Le Voyage dans la Lune and The Impossible Voyage.
The music video for The Smashing Pumpkins' 1996 song "Tonight, Tonight" was largely shot in the style of Méliès' best-known films, particularly Le Voyage Dans La Lune. The video also features a paddle wheel steamship named "S.S. Méliès."
In the last episode of the HBO miniseries From The Earth to the Moon, Méliès was played by Tchéky Karyo.
In 2003 The New York Guitar Festival commissioned the jazz composer/guitarist Bill Frisell to composes scores for five early films by Georges Méliès, including A Trip to the Moon (1902) and The Impossible Voyage (1904). Bill Frisell's Trio presented the world premiere of the scores in January 2004 at two concerts taking place at the New York Guitar Festival. The performances were later broadcast on WNYC New York Public Radio.Template:Fact
The contribution of Méliès to cinema history is the subject of the 2007 illustrated novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick, and Martin Scorsese's 2011 film adaptation of it as Hugo with Ben Kingsley playing Méliès. The film recreates how the Méliès studio functioned, features several segments of early films by Méliès, and portrays the neglect and later recognition he received in his lifetime.
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In the last two years often conflicting lines have passed through me: my Christian faith, my American nationality, my black identity. I live thankfully free of direct affect of violence and racism, so these are psychological lines, but true and real nonetheless. As I consider the line of racial violence running from Trayvon to Charleston, and the lines of political rhetoric that cross through the Church, I find myself meditating on how God regards the spilling of innocent blood.
God is an avenger of the blood of innocents. The blood of Abel cried out to God for justice against his brother, Cain, in Genesis 4. The blood cries out because, as we find tucked away in Leviticus, life is in the blood, and because there is life in it, atonement is in the blood.
Where division has rent the social fabric, only blood can sew it back together. Where sin has bruised a soul, only the welling up of blood can be a balm. Where hatred, envy, lust, cowardice and other sins have separated souls from God and each other, only blood can make them one.
We see this most clearly, of course, in the spilling of Christ's blood on the cross. The blood of this pure innocent forever cries out to God for vengeance, but also makes makes peace between God and us all, stranger and stranger, family and family. The very justice Christ's blood cries out for, it also creates by its righteousness.
We are seeing more than ever that the spilling of innocent blood brings life. The blood of Pinckney, Hurd, Coleman-Singleton, Doctor, Lance, Sanders, Jackson, Simmons and Thompson is bringing life by drawing disparate people, separated by the sin of racism, together, and breathing life back into our nation by the taking down of its symbols to a satanic belief that people may be sold and enslaved as cattle. Innocent blood should never be spilled, yet we thank God, because He turns its spilling from death to the issuing forth of life.Yet among the hope, we must consider warning.
Innocent blood also cries out for vengeance. At the end, God's martyrs will cry out, and their blood will be avenged, and what will become of their murderers in that day? The hidden, spiritual Powers that run the world have martyred God's people and destroyed the lives of innocents – but we Christians have often submitted ourselves as the Powers' willing instruments. When God closes history, will the blood on our hands condemn us? Do we suppose we also escape vengeance?
As I consider the political rhetoric of my Christian brothers and sisters, I hear the writer of Hebrews: you have not yet resisted to the shedding of your blood. I wonder if we American Christians have any concept of what this means, to resist sin, the Powers, and the god of this age, in a self-sacrificial way, laying our lives on the line for the truth?
We produce pulpit rhetoric against a few sins, yet ignore the blood on our hands – the sins so insidious they run deep through the heart of our communities: individualism, racism, imperialism, gluttony, capitalistic greed and in-hospitality – only to name the worst. Few if none of us are innocent – and none of us wants to be victims like Jesus was, for fear it denies our American, post-Enlightenment, rights-laden-with-few-responsibilities identity. Yet, if we were to pursue blamelessness, self-sacrifice, to resist sin to the shedding of our own blood, rather than continue to ally ourselves with the murderous sin structures created by the Powers, how much life would be unleashed on the earth? How might the kingdom of God flourish?
Christ, may we know. Let us know what it means to resist as you did, and, mimicking you, achieve to some extent a life of pure blamelessness. Avenge the blood of the innocent, we pray, and come in your justice. May you also have mercy on us, and on all those used by the Powers – they know not what they do. Purify us, we pray, that your gospel that we have tarnished may once against glitter as gold. Theotokos, Blessed Joseph, and all the angels and saints, please, pray for us.
#ashtag vs Matthew 6:16? Nope.
I suggest Jesus commands this to protect our souls from the sin of pride, so that our fasting will be effective and meritorious. It is the same reason, in the same sermon, Jesus commands us to pray privately. Yet, we Christians commonly pray in public, in front of each other, and for very good reasons. Based on long-standing Christian practice, and Jesus' motivations for this command, I doubt this is a blanket prohibition (though I realize we could go into this issue at length!).
Let's also consider that everyone knows it's Ash Wednesday. It is no secret, so why hide the fact? Hiding the silent witness that we're Christians and we anticipate the coming of our Lord Jesus seems, in that light, a moot point.
Today Christians are posting their #ashtags on social media, encouraging others to get their ashes. And I applaud them – brethren, if we hide our ashes, we hide our light. We should encourage others to get their ashes today, publicly, as there is no point in hiding.
Yet, the #ashtag opposers have a point. We cannot just "get our ashes", post an #ashtag selfie, celebrate a few fish friday deals, and show up on Easter in new clothes. No, we'd commit the same offense Jesus warns us against.
We take ashes on our forehead are an outward expression of our minds' inward repentance of sin, in hope of gaining meritorious grace. As the priest will say to us, we fast to "go and sin no more" remembering that "we are dust, and to dust we will return".
40 days we meditate on these words, and at the end, marvel that God would allow his crucifixion to save us, those who certainly continue to sin, and are nothing other than dust.
We also marvel that this same God will one day destroy sin and our corruptible flesh, and make us who are dust just like his Son.
If you take ashes, remember this. If you post an #ashtag selfie, remember this even more, and guard your heart.
I applaud the risk, because we're coming out of darkness into light, and showing the world that we love our God. The world wants to believe it will always progress, but Ash Wednesday says the world is dying and we must be reborn if we wish to see the Parousia.
How Do We Truly Fast?
If this man went to your church, or Tamir Rice or Trayvon Martin, how do you interpret Galatians 3:28 or Colossians 3:11 in light of their experience?
I have been troubled by this question for the past few months, as I live astride that blurred line between church and society. In conversation with other evangelicals, I have heard, echoing a popular commentary, social distinctions do not exist in the Body – we are all one in Christ. Often, discussion of racism and other structural sins is dismissed out of hand, based on the one in Christ idea, in order to maintain unity. I will not dispute that we need to focus on Christ, and our unity in him. My question is how do we do that? How can the Body of Christ truly recognize the Christ in all and also withstand the evil systems of oppression that intersect redeemed souls?
Let us approach the question another way – Paul also said that whoever is born again in Christ is a new creation, the old is dead and gone, the new has come. To use an old convention, I don't know about you but… I don't feel like a new creation. I fall short of the glory bestowed on me by Christ. Yet, Paul did not lie. To call my lived reality simply a lie and continue to speak or affirm what I do not know in my experience is willful blindness. No, something else is at work here.
The spiritual reality of the new creation is true, even if scarcely experienced. The dominating earthly reality is also true. We experience the gap between the two as, what I call, a "dissonance of realities". But God is bringing a new experience, what I call "creative tension": the bridging of the gap between our dissonant existence by the power of Christ. Faith is the strong force that pulls these two realities together, a concrete trust in action working creatively with God to remake earth into heaven. To apply it, my faith works with God to make the me that lives with Christ in heaven manifest on the earth.
Christ's judgment of the sheep and goats reflects this idea. The material reality is that some are American and illegal aliens, white and black, male and female, rich and poor. The spiritual reality is that Christ is in and loves every single one of "them", just as they are, in the condition that they are in.
But to follow Howard Thurman, if a Roman soldier kicked Christ into a ditch, how can we acknowledge the moral wrong of the kick, yet be willfully blind to the fact Jesus was kicked also because he was a poor minority living under the oppression of an unjust authority? The question should come back to us, "When you saw them bound, oppressed and hurt, you saw me. Why didn't you help me?" Unity in Christ means peace, but not a negative peace. As MLK taught us, peace is not the absence of conflict, but the presence of justice. If Jesus is the prince of peace, he is also the prince of justice. As Jesus reigns over us, what he wants is not the veneer of unity, but the deep, powerful, abiding force of justice.
We can withstand evil when we realize and act upon the understanding that within the Mystical Body of Christ our brothers and sisters are not white-washed Christians untouched by the systems of oppression the adversary has constructed in the world he (for now) rules. No – our brothers and sisters are touched, hurt, violated by these systems – these demonic principalities and powers. To simply say there are no social distinctions and deny the lived experience is itself an oppression and a violation of the gospel. We can withstand evil when we leverage our faith in active confrontation with the systems of oppression, both struggling against the evil in our own souls, and with the systems outside ourselves.
Which parts of the Body of Christ hurt under the pains of injustice? Am I willfully blind to their pain? Am I complicit in their pain by my actions or inaction?
Do my politics – all of them, across every issue – truly accord with who Christ is? Do I support policies by my vote or donations that may oppress others?
Are there any people whom I view as the enemy? Do I love them as Christ commanded me?
Would Christ think I see him in all people?
Last week in my series On the Lord's Prayer, I discussed how following God is involvement in his will, demanding both informed and intuitive but decisive movement. I broke down, briefly, what those parts meant, but wanted to explore some further thoughts on the trope of movement we are using to understand what it means to follow God.


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An opera performed by kids about how technology impacts our daily lives and decision-making? That's precisely what's on stage this weekend at Ojai Youth Opera.
The company was founded in 2012 by Rebecca Comerford. The goal was to help introduce young people to the art form, but more importantly, to give them an opportunity to star in operatic productions.
Twenty Ojai Youth Opera company members, ages 7-18, will do just that this weekend at the world premiere of Nightingale and the Tower, a new opera co-composed by Jason treating, Mikael Jorgensen, and Rebecca Comerford, who tells me, the story centers on 10-year-old Teo, a paraplegic boy who discovers a nightingale that had been born with a broken wing.
"He takes the bird into the deepest part of the forest where he encounters this tower, which is a giant supercomputer that houses all information and technology since the beginning of time. It's ruled by this empress who is also immortal—she's been there for a long time. She tells him, 'I can heal your bird. I can heal you too.' But there's something about her that he just doesn't trust. He says, 'My mother tells me I'm not supposed to trust people like you.' So, the opera unfolds from there. He has to make a choice to trust her, to embrace the technology, to see what lies inside the tower whether or not he wants to actually take that risk to follow the instructions of the empress."
Taryn Lakes and R Kyra Maal King in Ravel's "l'enfant et les sortilèges" during Ojai Youth Opera's French Masters Summer Opera Workshop 2015
And therein lies the drama of this opera, says Rebecca Comerford.
"Some of the inspiration behind the storytelling was how we are navigating this new world of technology with our children. I have a daughter who is nine and a son who is three and it's this all-pervasive force in all of our lives when it comes to how dependent we are on it for social media, for entertainment, for work, for all these various elements in our lives. We don't really know how it's affecting us right now. We're living with technology in a place where we haven't really had the time to study the effects of what it does to us. We wanted to create something that provoked these questions of how aware do we need to be and how much can we embrace it? Because it can also be this amazing tool for unlocking so much creativity and potential. Especially with children, there's that fine line between it being a tool and versus it being a distraction or something else."
Nightingale and the Tower will receive its world premiere this weekend at Ojai Youth Opera. Performances take place in Ojai's Libbey Bowl Saturday and Sunday nights at 8PM. For more information, visit ojaiyouthopera.org.
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