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This pissed me off. I've been inside so many time, but of course this time, it was locked up tight. The sign reads, "For engineer's or operation manager's assistance please ring bell, wait for green light, then open door. If no response call management office, 623-9040." As the size of the employment rolls dwindled, they shifted away from the buzzer system and used key control. The central plant area housed the boilers and electric mains.


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Q: What does this line " export type Replace = Omit & R; " do in Typescript? With my current knowledge, I am not able to understand what the Replace type is.
I did read the typescript documentation and learned part of what's happening in that line but it still was not enough for me to understand that.

A: The type Replace is replacing properties in T, with properties in R.
To break it down:

*

*Omit<T, keyof R> removes properties from T those with same  name as properties in R.

*Then & R intersects the resulting type from (1) with R. That means it adds the properties in R to the resulting type.

This may seem weird in that it re-adds the same properties to the resulting type those it removed earlier. But I suspect this was done to replace the type of the properties. Here is an example.
type Replace<T, R> = Omit<T, keyof R> & R;

type A = {
  prop1: string,
  prop2: string,
  prop3: string,
  prop4: string
};

type B = {
  prop3: number,
  prop4: number
};

type X = Replace<A, B>;

const x: X = {
  prop1: '1',
  prop2: '2',
  prop3: 3,
  prop4: 4
}

A: It remove the common key of T and R from T, then intersect the result with R

as you can see, the common key is b, b of A is string, now it is boolean(from b of C)
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You are in the right lane of the highway preparing to exit – As you approach an entrance ramp close to your exit, you notice a vehicle speeding up to enter the freeway. Watching this vehicle, you can tell if they driver is aware of your presence. This driver has three choices. They will either speed up to get ahead of you or they will slow down to enter behind you. If it's safe, move to the next lane to allow them to merge smoothly onto the freeway. Or they will simply act like they are the only people on the road and merge right where you are at that very moment.
The residential neighborhood scenario – You are driving in a residential area. In a front yard there are some kids playing. Anticipate that one of these kids could run into the street at anytime. Reduce your speed and cover your brake.
The yellow light scenario – You are approaching an intersection controlled by a signal light. You notice the light in you lane has been green for a while but as you get closer it never changes. Anticipate the light will turn yellow before you reach the intersection. Slow down and prepare to brake. Keep an eye on the car behind through your mirrors. They may be preparing to speed up to make it through the intersection.
Anticipating the actions of others is something you will begin to do subconsciously. The defensive driver always anticipates the worst and takes corrective actions to prevent collisions.


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The soup quickly develops a film and what looks like a rash. I abandon the rest of the bowl and trudge back to my desk.
Back at the ranch. Time for my spaghetti hoops on toast! A uni classic.
Margarine was not in the budget so it's going to miss that lovely fluffy toasty texture but I'm looking forward to it after the lunchtime athlete's foot.
It's been so long since I made this that I forget to heat up the hoops and pour them on the toast cold! Argh! It's a bleak combination but I can't be bothered to get up off the sofa, so I plough on through. It's missing the obligatory student bottle of white lightning but I polish it off like a trooper.


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BSNL v. Nortel Networks Pvt Ltd: Need for amendment in Sec. 11 & clarification on time-barred Claim
Urvi Khandelwal, Student, Institute of Law, Nirma University
On 10th March 2021, The Supreme court (two-judge bench), in the case of BSNL vs Nortel networks India Pvt Ltd. suggested the need to amend section 11 of The Arbitration and Conciliation act, 1996 concerning the limitation period for filing application of appointment of arbitrators.
The facts of the case were BSNL through the tender process awarded a purchase order to the respondent, Nortel Networks India. In 2014 Nortel Ltd raised a claim for the pending payment which BSNL denied. Then on 29th April 2020, the respondent invoked the arbitration clause and sent notice to BSNL for the appointment of an arbitrator. As BSNL rejected the claim, the respondent applied before the court for an appointment.
The main contention of BSNL was that the dispute was in the year 2014 and thus the claim is ex facie time-barred. The respondent contended that any objection regarding the limitation period has to be decided by the arbitration tribunal as per the kompetenz–kompetenz principle and section 11(6A). Kerela HC admitted the application and referred the case to arbitration. An appeal was made to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court contemplated on two issues
DECISION AND ANALYSIS
PERIOD OF LIMITATION FOR SECTION 11 APPLICATION
Section 11(6) states that party may apply to the court to take necessary measure for the appointment of the arbitrator if the party themselves fail to do. The question before the court was till what time a party can apply for the appointment of arbitrators. As per section 43, the limitation act will apply to the arbitration proceedings as it applies to the court proceedings. As there is no explicit time mention, article 137, the residuary clause will apply. Thus the limitation period will be of 3 years. In the present case, the notice was rejected on 9th June 2020 and the application was filed on 24th July 2020 and thus it is within the limitation period.
But the court observed that three years is long period for filing an application and it will hamper the main objective of arbitration ie effective and timely resolution of dispute. The aim of 2015 and 2019 amendments was expeditious conclusion of cases. If the parties are given time limit of three years for just filing an application then it will be contrary to the legislative intent. Thus, the court concluded that Parliament must amend the section and prescribe a specific shorter period of limitation.
It is also important to understand the difference between the limitation period of claim and a section 11 application. The limitation period of claim is from the date the dispute arose and the period for section 11 application will start upon the failure of appointment of arbitration within 30 days from the issuance of notice to the opposite party.
Can the Court refuse to make reference when the substantive claim is ex-facie Time barred?
This issue arose because one of the main pillars of arbitration is kompetenz-kompetenz principle. The court has to ensure that there is minimal judicial intervention and the issues are decided by arbitration tribunal. Before the 2015 amendment, the court had broadened its scope and use to decide on validity and limitation period of agreement. As per 2015 amendment, section 11(6A) was added which says "court has to confine itself to the examination of an existence of arbitration agreements". Though this section has been deleted in 2019 amendment the changes are yet to be notified and thus 11(6A) governs the extent of intervention in the present.
In Mayavti Trading Pvt. Ltd. v. Pradyuat Deb Burman, the court clarified the position and held that 11(6A) has to be understood in narrow sense and thus the court can only examine the existence of dispute and not any other related matters. The Supreme Court in Uttarakhand Purv Sainik Kalyan Nigam v. Northern Coal Field Ltd, also held that issue of limitation has to be decided by the arbitration tribunal. Thus, when an application is filed under section 11 of the act, the court need not see that the claim is beyond limitation period or not.
In the present case, the court observed that limitation period is question of fact and law and thus has to be decided by the arbitration tribunal. The court explained the difference between jurisdictional and admissibility issue. The difference can be identified by tribunal versus claim test. The test says that if the issue is in regarding the claim or the agreement then it will be considered as admissibility issue and this shall be decided by the arbitration tribunal. As the limitation period is in regard to admissibility of claim it the tribunal has the power to decide on it.
But it is also important to follow the approach of expeditious resolution. Thus court can prima facie look into the issue to knockdown ex facie time barred claim. Only in rare and exceptional cases where on the face of it one can manifest that the claim is beyond the limitation period then the court may refuse to refer to arbitration. In Vidya Drolia v.Durga Trading Corporation, the court while defining the scope of section 11 held "Exercise of the limited prima facie review does not interfere with the competence competence principle but ensures that vexatious and frivolous matters get over at the initial stage".
The rationale behind this is that when in the initial stage it is clearly visible that the claim is time barred, it defeats the purpose of invoking arbitration clause i.e. to get timely and effective remedy to parties. Thus, the general rule is that the court has to refer the case to arbitration and only in some exceptional cases it can refrain from doing so.
In the present case the notice of invoking arbitration was made 5 1/2 years after the dispute arose. It was clear that the claim is time barred and thus the court refused to refer the dispute to arbitration.
The Supreme court on 15th March 2021, in case Secunderabad Cantonment Board vs M/S B. Ramachandraiah reiterated the same position on period of limitation and ex facie time barred claims. In that case, the court held that court cannot appoint an arbitrator as the section 11 application was filed after the completion of three years.
Thus, the position is settled that period of limitation for filing application of appointment of an arbitrator is of three years. The issue with this is that it is unduly long and hampers the objective of the act. Thus it is essential to make an amendment to specify shorter and definite period for timely resolution. Judiciary acknowledging the need for amendment is a right step in the direction of expeditious and effective arbitration. The court also distinguished between the limitation period of claims and section 11 application. In the present case even though the application was filed within the limitation period, there was undue delay in invoking the arbitration and thus the claim was not referred for arbitration.
The judgment of Vidya Droliya and the present case clarifies the circumstances in which the court may refuse to refer the dispute to arbitration. The court may refuse only when it is completely certain that the claim is beyond the limitation period. The court has clearly stated that if there is even the slightest doubt or evidence of subsisting dispute, then the court has to let the arbitration tribunal decide the issue. The reason behind this is that time and resources of the other party are not wasted when the claim is ex facie time-barred. Thus the court has tried to create a balance between the kompetenz–kompetenz principle and the authority of court to refuse claims on the basis that they are ex facie time-barred.

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Santa Clara County doesn't budge on…
The university has called the requirements "unreasonable."
By Maggie Angst | mangst@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group
Despite Stanford University's concerns over adding more housing to its massive expansion project, Santa Clara County is moving ahead with a plan that calls for nearly four times more housing units for faculty and staff than the university proposed.
The County's Planning Commission has unanimously endorsed the general use permit that will control Stanford's growth over the next two decades, with the Board of Supervisors expected to consider it for approval in the fall.
The county's additional housing requirements were added amid a growing housing crisis forcing Bay Area residents — and university employees specifically — to move farther away and withstand longer commutes, contributing to the region's traffic problems.
The unanimous decision by the commission came just three days after the university offered to pony up $4.7 billion worth of new housing and community benefits as part of its expansion proposal.
Stanford announced on June 24 that it was willing to spend $3.4 billion to build 1,307 new housing units — including 575 at below-market rates — $1.17 billion to finance transportation improvements and $138 million to boost Palo Alto Unified School District's coffers.
In exchange, the university requested that the county provide it with development rights and repeal two county ordinances that require the university to pay affordable housing fees and designate 16 percent of new housing units as affordable.
County staff, however, balked at the university's proposal and disagreed with its definition of "community benefits".
County Executive Sylvia Gallegos pointed to the 2,600 student beds that have been a part of Stanford's expansion plans since its original application in 2016 and account for $1.4 billion of what the university is calling community benefits.
"Those aren't community benefits. That's the project application," Gallegos told the Planning Commission at its June 27 meeting.
Gallegos instead valued Stanford's community benefits as $168 million. The county's valuation included $138 million that the university has agreed to provide the Palo Alto Unified School District over the next 40 years and $30 million that the university offered to various cities in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties for transportation improvement such as bicycle lanes and crosswalk enhancements.
In April, the county suspended negotiations with Stanford to jointly draft a development agreement after the university and Palo Alto Unified School District brokered their own agreement. The development agreement — a voluntary, legally binding negotiated contract between the county and Stanford — would supplement the conditional agreement and allow for more negotiations.
Stanford continues to try and persuade the county to head back to the negotiating table, but so far no progress has been made.
Gallegos told the planning commission that staff did not support the university's proposed development agreement offered to the Board of Supervisors, and urged the commissioners to recommend that the board reject it, which they did.
"What they want from the public in exchange is the loss of important community protections," Gallegos said about the university's proposal.
In November 2016, the university applied for a general use permit to build an additional 2.275 million square feet of academic facilities, 40,000 square feet of transportation and child care facilities, 2,600 beds for students and 550 housing units for faculty and staff, entirely within the current campus footprint.
In May, the county released a 125-page document that outlined all its proposed list of requirements that would have to be met for the university's expansion plan to gain approval.
Most notably, the county required Stanford to increase staff and faculty housing from the proposed 550 to 2,172 units and provide 933 of those units at below-market rates.
"We are not asking Stanford to solve the current affordable housing crisis, what we're asking them to do is to address and avoid future exacerbating of the housing crisis by fully addressing the housing that would result from its development," Gallegos said during the June 27 planning commission meeting.
Catherine Palter, associate vice president of land use and environmental planning for Stanford, did not agree with the county's take, calling some of the county's conditions relating to housing and transportation "unreasonable" and "infeasible".
"We continue to have some very significant concerns about whether this project can be delivered under the conditions that are before you today," Palter told the commission.
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Under the county's proposed conditions, Stanford also would be required to limit reverse commute trips from increasing more than 2 percent from the base year and to ensure average daily traffic does not increase more than 3 percent. Failing to adhere to the limits could jeopardize the university's ability to proceed with the future phases of the expansion.
Palter called this condition nearly "impossible" for the university to meet.
Unlike in the area of housing, some commissioners were more sympathetic to the university's traffic concerns.
Commissioner Bob Levy worried that the reverse trips could be spouses or roommates of Stanford employees and said that Stanford should not be held accountable for those trips.
"We're in a situation right now here, we're in a traffic crisis and we need to mitigate everything that we possibly can, but I also want to be fair and make sure that the mitigation is fairly applied to Stanford for what they're responsible for," Commissioner Bob Levy said during the meeting.
When approving the general use permit, the commission added a recommendation that staff continue to analyze the trip limits and consider other alternatives before it goes before the Board of Supervisors.
Maggie Angst
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E-ClassNew cars
CES 2020: Updated Mercedes E-Class previewed, gets mild-hybrid tech
Cristi Stefan, January 22, 2020
Home Mercedes Benz E-Class CES 2020: Updated Mercedes E-Class previewed, gets mild-hybrid tech
The Mercedes E-Class facelift will get mild-hybrid and plug-in hybrid powertrains and will benefit from new semi-autonomous driving technologies. Several camouflaged prototypes have been exhibited at CES 2020 in Las Vegas.
Mercedes-Benz has published a series of images with the future E-Class facelift. The prototypes present at the Las Vegas CES 2020 event were completely covered in camouflage. Earlier espionage photos showed that the E-Class (launched in 2016) is set to receive new headlights, modified bumpers on both front and rear and revised rear lights, that take on a completely different shape. Mercedes-Benz leaves the appearance of the revised E-Class W213 (sedan) and S213 Estate) covered with camouflage stickers, but the picture is now more clear about the technical updates.
Mercedes-Benz say that in the E-Class facelift there will be seven plug-in hybrid variants plus two completely new mild-hybrid versions.
With the launch of the E-Class facelift, the German manufacturer introduces the 2.0-liter M254 petrol engine. As stated, this will be complement by a 48V mild-hybrid EQ Boost system. The top version of the engine will provide 268 horsepower, while the EQ Boost system will generate an additional 20 hp under certain conditions. According to Mercedes-Benz representatives, the new 2.0-liter engine was specially developed to meet Euro7 standards.
The M256 six-cylinder engine will also be available in an EQ Boost configuration. Its top variant will develop 362 horsepower (+20 hp thanks to EQ Boost).
Also, Mercedes-Benz officials say that the future E-Class will also be available in a hybrid diesel + electric plug-in version capable of providing electric range of over 100 kilometers. The Germans say that this variant has a 31.2 kWh battery, but it will only be available on the E-Class facelift with increased wheelbase, a version exclusively available for the Chinese market.
In the interior, Mercedes-Benz announces the latest version of the MBUX infotainment system as standard, which is directly linked to two 10.25-inch displays (standard, optional 12.3-inch), one located directly behind the wheel. The system is able to indicate traffic lights, reads traffic signs and can also detect house numbers. Inside, the future E-Class will also be equipped with the following: a new steering wheel with tactile areas for controlling the information displayed on the two screens, the Energizing system with the Energizing Coach function.
The Active Distance Assist Distronic adaptive cruise control has been updated and now adjusts the speed automatically to the maximum speed indicated on traffic signs. Also new, in traffic jams, the E-Class can find its way semi-autonomously up to a speed of 60 km / h. The system relies both on the information received from the sensors located at the body level, but also on the data provided by the Real Time Traffic Information system (RTTI, real-time traffic information), so that the system will act even faster. More gadget news: the Blind Spot Assistant now also warns about cyclists and pedestrians.
The full list of safety technologies includes the following: Active Traffic Jam Assist, Active Steering Assist, Active Brake Assist, Active Blind Sport Assist, Parking Package 360°.
The rejuvenated Mercedes E-Class Limousine and Estate will reach the showrooms this summer. The Coupé and Cabriolet will follow a little later.
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You nailed the most difficult definition in the world, and you did it in your own words that we can all relate to. I love the poem, the flow, and the form. Also the message.
Been there, done that. This poem speaks directly to my heart. Thank you for writing it.
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Ted Lasso: Season Two Premiere Date and Teaser Released for Apple TV+
by Trevor Kimball, April 20, 2021
(Apple TV+)
Ted is back in the game. Apple TV+ has announced that season two of the Ted Lasso TV show will debut on Friday, July 23rd.
The single-camera comedy series revolves around a small-time college football coach (Jason Sudeikis) from the Midwest who's hired to coach a professional soccer team in England — despite having no previous experience coaching soccer. In season two, Sarah Niles joins Sudeikis, Hannah Waddingham, Brendan Hunt, Jeremy Swift, Juno Temple, Brett Goldstein, Phil Dunster, and Nick Mohammed in the cast.
The Apple TV+ show has already been renewed for a third season.
Here's more information about the return of Ted Lasso, as well as a teaser trailer:
Apple reveals premiere date and teaser trailer for the second season of its award-winning, comedy phenomenon "Ted Lasso," debuting Friday, July 23
Apple today unveiled the premiere date and teaser trailer for the highly anticipated second season of comedy sensation "Ted Lasso," which will make its global debut on Friday, July 23, 2021 on Apple TV+. The broadly acclaimed, hit series has already been renewed for a third season ahead of its season two premiere. "Ted Lasso" recently triumphed at the 2021 Critics Choice Awards sweeping every category it was nominated in and securing wins for Best Comedy Series, Best Actor for Jason Sudeikis and Best Supporting Actress for Hannah Waddingham.
Since its debut in August 2020, the beloved comedy has continued to be recognized with a multitude of awards and nominations, recently earning Jason Sudeikis a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series and a Golden Globe Award in the Best Comedy Actor category. The series also landed two Writers Guild Awards for Best New Series and Best Comedy Series, nominations from the Producers Guild of America for Comedy Series, as well as honors from many other guild and critics groups. "Ted Lasso" was also the only comedy series honored as an AFI Program of the Year and has regularly appeared on television critics' "Best of 2020" lists.
Apple's "Ted Lasso" stars Sudeikis as Ted Lasso, a small-time college football coach from Kansas hired to coach a professional soccer team in England, despite having no experience coaching soccer. Waddingham, Brendan Hunt, Jeremy Swift, Juno Temple, Brett Goldstein, Phil Dunster and Nick Mohammed star alongside Sudeikis in the ensemble cast who are joined in season two by Sarah Niles.
In addition to starring, Sudeikis serves as executive producer, alongside Bill Lawrence via his Doozer Productions, in association with Warner Bros. Television and Universal Television, a division of NBCUniversal Content. Doozer's Jeff Ingold also serves as an executive producer with Liza Katzer as co-executive producer. The series was developed by Sudeikis, Bill Lawrence, Brendan Hunt and Joe Kelly, and is based on the pre-existing format and characters from NBC Sports.
The complete first season of "Ted Lasso" is available on Apple TV+ on the Apple TV app.
Apple TV+ is home to award-winning Apple Originals from today's most imaginative storytellers. Apple TV+ offers premium, compelling drama and comedy series, feature films, groundbreaking documentaries, and kids and family entertainment, and is available to watch across all your favorite screens. After its launch on November 1, 2019, Apple TV+ became the first all-original streaming service to launch around the world, and has premiered more original hits and received more award recognitions faster than any other streaming service.
Apple TV+ is available on the Apple TV app in over 100 countries and regions, on over 1 billion screens, including iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, iPod touch, Mac, select Samsung, LG, Sony and VIZIO smart TVs, Amazon Fire TV and Roku devices, Chromecast with Google TV, PlayStation and Xbox consoles, and at tv.apple.com, for $4.99 per month with a seven-day free trial. For a limited time, customers who purchase a new iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Mac or iPod touch can enjoy one year of Apple TV+ for free. This special offer is good for three months after the first activation of the eligible device.1
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Leonid Nikitovich Khrushchev (10 November 1917 – 11 March 1943) was the son of Nikita Khrushchev, former leader of the Soviet Union, and served as a fighter pilot in the Soviet Air Forces during the World War II. He was shot down and killed in 1943, but the exact circumstances of his death remain unknown.

Early life
Leonid Khrushchev was born to Nikita Khrushchev and his first wife, Yefrosinia Pisareva. He graduated from high school and afterwards went to work in a factory. During high school, he received two reprimands from Komsomol (the youth division of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union): one for drunkenness and lack of discipline, the other for failure to pay for membership fees.

Air force career
In 1935, Leonid Khrushchev joined the Soviet Air Force as a fighter pilot.

During World War II, Khrushchev was part of the 134th Bomber Aviation Regiment, 46th Air Division, stationed in the Andreapol, Kalinin Oblast. He saw action in the Winter War against Finland, in which he completed over thirty combat missions and bombed the Mannerheim Line; after the war was finished on 13 March 1940, he volunteered to stay at the front. During the summer of 1941, he completed twelve combat missions and was presented with the Order of the Red Banner. On July 26, Khrushchev's plane was hit by German fighters near Moscow forcing him to crash land. He was hospitalized with a broken leg wherein the bone protruding through his boot. A doctor wanted to amputate until he threatened the doctor with a pistol. After recovery, his injured leg was shorter than the other. During his recovery in Kuibyshev, he associated with Rubén Ruiz Ibárruri. Impatient while idle, he would shoot bottles on friends' heads and killed one drunken naval officer by accident. Although court martialled, he was allowed to return to be a fighter pilot again.

Disappearance
On 11 March 1943, Khrushchev's plane, a YaK-7B fighter, was shot down, with Khrushchev presumably being killed. The pilots of his squadron saw his plane explode and disintegrate in the air after being hit by Focke Fw 190's fire, allegedly while attempting to shield another pilot with his own plane. However, even though the area of his approximate crash was under partisans control, and several planes attempted to locate his plane's wreckage on the next night, his body was never found. This, together with the fact that his father was already a member of the Politburo and one of the most important political figures in the country, gave birth to a number of conspiracy theories about the circumstances of his death.

Two months after his disappearance, he was posthumously awarded with the Order of the Patriotic War.

See also
 List of unsolved deaths

References

Bibliography

 The Lost Khrushchev: A Journey into the Gulag of the Russian Mind. By Nina Khrushcheva. Tate Publishing; 320 pages;

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Burials at Novodevichy Cemetery
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Czechs and religion
I was asked how is it possible that so many Czech people don't belong to any of the churches. What caused current situation when almost 70 percent of whole Czech population isn't registered in any of the existing churches? Why are so many people in the Czech Republic atheists? I'll try to answer these questions.
We have to start deep in the past. We can say it all started in the beginning of 15th century. Most of you probably already heard about Hussite wars and their reason - disagreement with the catholic church, which had many flaws those days. New movements and church which appeared from the Hussite Wars, so called Hussites or "Chalice People", was really strong - almost 80 percent of Czech population belonged to them before the 30 years war.
Catholic church was percieved as a rich, but hostile, selfish organisation. And this was valid even during the 30 years war. But after the Czechs lost their fight for new king (they wanted another king, not one from Habsburg family, but this is looong story), recatholisation started. It means situation when common people are given only one chance - to change their faith from protestant/hussite to catholic. Noblemen were given more chances, they could leave the country which was not allowed to common people (but it happened anyway and many Czech people left to other European countries because they were not willing to change their faith).
Stone cross from the beginning of 19th century near Zbožice, Vysočina region.
Then we have about one and half century when only Catholic church was allowed in Czech lands. Josef II.'s law from 1781, Patent of Toleration, showed that many people were hidden protestants - many people, whole villages in some areas such as Vysočina region, declared themselves protestant in very short time after the Patent. But the numbers were low, just about 5 to 10 percent of the population (low number compared to those 80 percent of non-catholics before the 30 years war).
The rest of population remain catholic. And here the problem rised. When Czech nation began its way to the modern nation in the second half of 19th century, Catholic church was still percieved as something foreign, German and hostile to Czechs (as it was during the Hussite wars and 30 years war and the years after it). Hussite period was percieved as a golden age of Czech nation - and Catholic church was losing worshippers.
And this continued after the breakdown of Habsburg monarchy. People were allowed to leave a church from 1872 but not too many of them did it before 1920 - the pressure from the church was still quite large because people meant money. But since 1920 the number of believers has declining tendency. People were leaving Catholic church by thousands as they still percieved it as a hostile organisation. Many people declared themselves "without confession" (bez vyznání) or belonging to new Czechoslovak (Hussite) church. And many people of the elites (such as first Czech president Tomáš Garrique Masaryk) were presenting this tendency.
And then - the Second World War and then Communism came. And communism wasn't regime friendly to religion. The percieving of Catholic church as something hostile was maintained by the communists because church was still quite strong in 1940's and 1950's. Communist propaganda against church was strong, really strong. Physical repression, liquidation of church orders, political show trials with prelates and priests... But all this had no chance to success if there wasn't that historical background.
All this led to the current Czech situation when almost 70 percent of people are "without confession"...
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Judi January 2, 2015 at 7:21 AM
Do you think, then, that this was a reason to leave the country in the late 19th century? Or were the reasons still mostly economical and not religious? My Kovar line was catholic at that time and married in a Chicago catholic church but never baptized any of their children here. My Nemec line was Evangelical when they lived in the Litomerice area but still dropped their religious practices in the US.
Blanka L. January 4, 2015 at 7:48 AM
Religion wasn't the case for leaving the country in 19th century - money and wealth were the reason. :) People expected that they will be able to earn more money across the sea, they expected their lives will be better. I suppose the "loss" of religion is connected to the fact they weren't forced to visit the church as they most probably were in Bohemia (not directly, but by social rules etc.).
Google "Czech Freethinkers." It may provide you with some answers.
Don't forget draft dodging as a reason to leave Bohemia! My grandfather--who emigrated to America in 1907--told me many times he had no interest in fighting for Franz Joseph (Austro-Hungarian Emporer). Bohemia/Moravia had been since ca 1620 under Austrian domination. Grandpa said he felt a war was coming and he wanted no part of it. It came eight years later.
Economics and the possibility of owning land were the main rains to emigrate, almost never religion. This is one of the great American myths about immigration beginning with the Pilgrims, who in fact did not tolerate other religions. Do we have freedom of religion? Can an atheist be elected president today? Can a Muslim child in America aspire to be president?
Czechs often dropped religion in urban America. There were some Catholic loyalists like the Moravia settlements in Texas.
amy March 5, 2017 at 1:40 PM
Religion was a reason for immigration to the U.S. The Pilgrims were Saints & Strangers (Separatists) and they were not in the Kings favor and allowed to leave for religious reasons. In the Czech area look up "Free Thinkers"
Mike Kreyche January 2, 2015 at 6:21 PM
Very interesting analysis! When you mention people that declared themselves "bez vyznání" does that include "freethinkers?" And did freethinkers come to be as organized in the home country as the did in the U.S.? See this article about freethinkers in Chicago, for example: http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/487.html.
Mike, people who were "bez vyznání" were not organized - they just didn't belong to any church anymore.
Scott Phillips January 3, 2015 at 1:07 AM
Nice post. It is important though to include the Freethought movement when speaking of Bohemians (Czechs) and religion. In the United States the split was almost 50-50 between those Bohemians who were religious and those who were Freethinkers. This can lead to many issues in searching for records, etc.
My father was a member of a Board of Education in a Chicago suburb which was heavily Czech. The local clergy both Catholic and Protestant requested that the Board allow Children to leave school early one day every two weeks. Members of the public spoke pro and con. One member of the clergy spoke up reminding the people of Jan Huss. A man shouted "And the Catholics burned him at the stake". This happened in the late 1940s.
"Bez vyznání" actually means that people don't consider them selves catholic, protestant or any other religion. Basically means that they do not practice religion regardless of their believe, even though in a lot of cases they were baptized as children.
artist4fun January 4, 2015 at 11:54 AM
Very informative article. Now I understand why my grandmother from Bohemia disliked churches. She wasn't fond of public education and took my Dad out of elementary school. The city made him go to a trade school. Grandma didn't win that one!
But my grandparents from Carpatho-Rusyn background did come to America partly because of religious persecution. They were Orthodox and entire neighborhoods were formed around their churches in America. They still exist. My family eventually went to Roman Catholic churches. As everyone began moving to the suburbs their Orthodox Church was to far away and they needed a neighborhood church, especially for their children. The Orthodox Church eventually was sold and there were two smaller Churches which became one church in a southern suburb. It is exquisite and looks just like a European Orthodox Church.
Does any one know why all the headstones in a Catholic parish church yard (in Malsice, near Tabor) would have been removed? Someone told me the soviets made the churches remove them... is this true? I was recently in Malsice and was hoping to find my Drevo and Podhrazsky ancestor's headstones but every single one had been removed from the yard... I know they had been there at one time!
Cammi Drevo-Amezcua
Reno, NV USA
Cammi, many old cemeteries were moved to new locations during the 2nd half of 20th century because of the hygienic norms. And those tombstones which were not under care of some family were destroyed (and often used as building material which is really sad). So, if no one from the family stayed in Bohemia and paid for the burial place and tombstone right before the move, the tombstones (and people buried under them) were not moved to the new location.
If I'm not wrong, the cemetery was originally around the church in Malsice and then moved to the current location which is out of the village - so it's exactly the case I have described. New hygienic rules --> cemetery had to be moved --> no one paid for tombstones --> tombstones were not moved, but destroyed.
In the Czech Republic, the laws do not allow ownership of the grave site, but only its lease. The lease can be transferred to another person once it is up, or it could be renewed for another 20 years. Once the lease is up, and it is not renewed, the municipality that maintains the cemetery, will size the spot and reuse it for another burial. The headstones became the property of the municipality as an abandoned property. The way a family maintain cemetery plot is that they transfer the lease from one generation to another.
Subsequently, the majority of the cemeteries in the Czech Republic were established after 1781, when a new law forbade a burial within the city limits. However, the cities expanded, but with a few exceptions, you will not find any cemetery (except Jewish) that will have a burial headstone prior 1781.
If you are looking for your ancestral burial site, it was most likely abandoned 20 years after the last funeral as the lease was up. The municipality should still offer information where the human remains rest. Many places, the remains are dug up and placed in common burial pit after 50 years from the last funeral.
Additionally, Czechoslovakia was NOT Soviet state, nor ever part of it; therefore, Soviet rules did not apply to it. It was only Soviet allied satellite, and hosted Soviet troops between 1968-1991. For communist regime, it was totally irrelevant what was located around the church for burial site. The church funerals continued in the communist Czechoslovakia without any problems as they were not an issue for the communist government.
David January 8, 2015 at 12:46 AM
This is a very interesting and thoughtful analysis, thanks for sharing! It confirms something I have often felt, that the resurgence of nationalism led to a feeling of the Church as foreign.
I feel though, that most analyses I've read discount the extent to which many Czechs enthusiastically re-embraced the church. It is my understanding that because of the particular history of the Hussite church, that on the eve of the 30 Years War there was less of a stark divide between Protestants and Catholics in Bohemia and Moravia than there were in other countries, and more of a continuum. After the Compacta of 1436, the Hussites (excluding the Taborites) basically became a rite of the Catholic Church. The differences at that point between the conservative Hussites and the Church were relatively minor. Over the next 150 odd years, however, many drifted further and further towards Protestantism, while others drifted back closer to Catholicism. Thus at the outbreak of the 30 Years War you could find in the Czech lands a spectrum of religious belief, in contrast to the more rigid divisions imposed in other lands by the "Cuius regio, eius religio" settlement of 1555 in the Peace of Augsburg.
Especially among the peasantry, the expressed faith was still in most ways Catholic. The push to Protestantism had been largely led by burgers and noblemen, who had financial as well as theological reasons for embracing the new faith. Obviously this is painting in very broad brush strokes, and as you mention there were often small villages that retained their Protestant faith even after the Habsburg reimposition of Catholicism. But thinking in these terms does help to explain the ease which with the Catholic faith was reimposed in Bohemia and Moravia in the countryside. Indeed, in the 1700's and 1800's the Czech lands were actually known for their piety, as witnessed by the popularity of pilgrimages such as to Svatá Hora.
Sorry to go on so long, but I think the mindset of Czechs towards the Church as something foreign and imposed is in a significant measure an invention of the 19th century. A more accurate appraisal would factor in the many divisions that existed in the Hussite times, the diversity of religious beliefs in the period leading up to the 30 Years War, and the enthusiasm with which many re-embraced and practiced the Catholic faith over the next 200-plus years.
Thanks again for posting this - it was a big help to me in understanding the situation.
Actually, the push toward the Catholic church in the 16th century started by the wealthy nobility than the peasantry. It gave them better social prestige in Hapsburg dominated state. While the ideological division between the Catholic and Bohemian-Protestantism was indeed small, the majority of people did not want rich church organization(s). Czechs believed that they could spend money for something better than on church. The peasantry disliked the Catholic organization because they were poor. Czech Recatolization was only successful on the surface, but the Czechs lacked zeal and identity with it. Even in the middle of the 18th century, when the Catholic church was dominant, many Czech communities lacked church, because its population was unwilling to invest a few resources they had for it. The Catholic faith was imposed from cities to the countryside, and it was possible due widespread depopulation caused by the 30 Years War.
The modern Czech nation formed on a secular basis. Unlike in Poland, Serbia, Ireland, modern Czech identity was not formed from the Christianity. The Bohemian/Moravian catholic clergy and was not a nation/statehood forming organization. By the end of the 19th century, the Czech nationals identified the Catholic church as the main hindrance against full Czech emancipation. Two generations have grown in a country where they felt they were second class citizen, unappreciated by Vienna, with a church that was not even protecting their interest unlike in other Hapsburg lands. When Czechoslovakia was created, more than 1 million of its citizens left the Catholic Church in protest by 1920. The dislike between interwar Czechoslovak government and the Catholic church was well known, that had a hard time accepting independent Czechoslovak statehood. This was one of the reasons, why the Catholic church declined after 1918 well 30 years prior the communist takeover. The church national policy between 1867-1920 was the primary cause for secularization of the Czech society.
Is there any information online that gives listings of the dead buried in specific cemeteries...something like the volunteer contributed FindAGrave.com or even individual listings??? It would be great to know ahead of time if a cemetery of interest is worth visiting.
Blanka L. January 17, 2015 at 12:10 PM
Well, there is no central database. There are several small databases but those contain maximum hundreds of records. I'll try to collect a links list to those which have at least few cemeteries online.
Steve R November 7, 2017 at 10:29 PM
It is only then will the man realize he is not to fight in the name of religion because any religion is meant to unite the individual with the divine.guarantor
Foilpants January 24, 2018 at 4:11 PM
I had a couple of questions about Bohemian (Catholic) customs circa early 1800s.... My ancestor Stepan Srsen (#43...Son of Karel) hung himself at age 40 years in Chocenice... assuming it was due to his losing two-thirds of his kids to disease and the instability of the Kingdom. He was found by the coroner to be at fault, therefore he could not be buried inside the cemetery.
○How were funerals usually handled in these situations? (Officiant, casket type, location, grave marker, attendants) Was there a funeral at all?
○How was the family of the deceased treated by the townsfolk or the church? Excommunicated? Shunned?
○ Did the church need to ask the coroner to do an autopsy to find out if he was in control of his actions, or did the family need to request one in hopes that they would find he wasn't so he could have a proper burial near his babies? Or was it standard operations?
○What would the widow and children have done for income afterwards
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We need to recall that when two religions each so essential to the way of life and lifestyle of countries conflict it is on the grounds that some head looks for more influence, control, and riches. Islamic Fiqh
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Religion, in this manner, similar to some other formation of the world has both the body and the spirit. While the spirit of all religions exudes from a similar God, the assortments of the religions are diverse for each culture and society.סיינטולוגיה
Ruth Ann Abbott November 23, 2019 at 3:57 AM
But that is the extent of the commonalities - a belief in a similar God. I asked a Czech this same question and he quickly added that people in some religions are ready to kill infidels because of this belief in God and others couldn't kill because of this belief in God.
I interviewed quite a lot of Czechs last summer and many believed in God but were listed as atheist from old records. Some called it the religion of their grandparents - belief in God, not the Catholic church. Some also expressed a resentment of others coming into their small country and telling them what to do because of the Russian occupation. I was surprised that I found no real atheist in Czechia.
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Located on the outskirts of the historic city of Hyderabad, Leonia Holistic Destination commands uniqueness in its aspects with integrated facilities focused on leisure, health, business, recreation, sports, entertainment and rejuvenation. Leonia Resorts is located at Bommaraspet, Shameerpet, Ranga Reddy District of Hyderabad, just about a km away from outer ring road, towards Karimnagar highway.
Stay is bliss: Nothing can be sweeter than that cozy bed and soft pillow of yours at home. Hence homeliness bears its signature in every aspect of Leonia's Lagoon Villas; Celestia Suites and Ohbiz hotel.
Lagoon Villa: A series of 18 aesthetically designed villas; Leonia's Lagoon Villas are characterized by a 99 m long pool bay with rustic surroundings, bright interiors and several amenities to give you all the comfort you require. The décor of the villas is a testimony of an elegant marriage of rusticity and sheer urban elegance which makes your stay an experience.
Celestia Suites: Luxury and regalia find their new address at Leonia's Celestia suites. Every element of the suite spells opulence as grand as the Celestial abode. The villas consist of two boardrooms equipped with video conferencing, touch screen audio visual controls and the latest in communications to stay connected with your work. It features a dedicated swimming pool, camouflaged in greenery, allowing the guests to enjoy their indulgences.
Ohbiz Hotel: The Ohbiz hotel is an indigenously built 14 storied structure overlooking the destination catering to all kinds of guests such as business, wedding and individual travelers to offer them a classic hospitality experience. The hotel is suited for travelers who believe in simple indulgence and convenience. Adjacent to the hotel is a Biz lawn that takes care of any exclusive parties, luncheons or dinners hosted by guests without moving far.
Eatinerary: Leonia is dotted with a range of eateries and restaurants which not only address the call of your appetite but also help creating those private moments, family togetherness with exquisite décor and themes. The restaurants such as Sun Moon, Bistro, Food court, Shahi Handi, let you taste-travel to the Mughal palate to the new-age quick and healthy bites, to Middle-east munches to the European flavors. Water Galaxy restaurant offers you a unique fine dining experience where you will be seated on a wading pool with an adjoining stage area featuring live music and other performances.
Activities in abundance: Leonia has been a frequent haunt for families and corporate teams as a day outing venue by virtue of its range of activities and amusement facilities. Splash, a water park with Rain Dance, DJ Music, Slides for kids & adults; paintball; human foosball; fairyworld; Euro Bungy jumping, cricket ground and a range of indoor games will leave you spoilt with choices while spending your day out of your schedule.
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Nightlife/entertainment: Stay updated with the latest flicks at Leonia's Carnival Cinemas which is a 3-screen theatre equipped with world-class acoustics and Digital Cinema technology. Get a whiff of nightlife as you party hard and elevate your spirit at the three bars, Fluckers, Leo Vegas and Grus at Leonia.
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Wedding venue at Leonia: Leonia houses wedding facilities like indoor and outdoor venues, in-house Food & Beverages and Audio Visual. It features a podium measuring 3, 00,000 Sq. ft where you take your wedding vows before witnesses of 20-2000 people. Leonia's Leo Mandapam is replete with regal settings and grandeur and hosts facilities ranging from Music and Entertainment, Food and Beverage, Décor and Ambience to Video and Photography.
Corporate meet and greet: Leonia hosts range of venues which cater to corporate events of all scales, genres and magnanimity. It is equipped with boardrooms, conference rooms, mini meeting rooms etc and latest technologies and also has on-site management personnel whose skills are attuned to the ever changing needs of the corporate world.
How to reach Leonia Resorts, Hyderabad?
Transportation: Leonia offers its guests a number of transportation options ranging from private airport transfers and radio taxis to luxurious chauffeur driven Audi cars. For those travelling in larger groups, Leonia has included the convenience of AC Luxury Coaches.
Leonia has been envisioned as the sanatorium for people who seek to spend moments away from the sounds and strife of a typical city life. The property's location, topography, the verdant greenery that punctuates the acres makes Leonia an ideal getaway and an option to stay for the people.


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DID AFRICANS SELL THEMSELVES INTO SLAVERY?
June 15, 2019 June 15, 2019 africanakua	1 Comment
There are many misconceptions about African history and nowhere is this more evident than the topic on slave trade. Though there is some element of truth to the assertion that Africans were selling each other, the sole blame for Africans over the act results in a gross oversimplification of what was a complex historical event. This also seems to be an attempt to shift the burden of the slave trade on the victims of that very trade.
Ghanaian educator Samuel Sulemana Fuseini has acknowledged that his Asante ancestors accumulated their great wealth by abducting, capturing, and kidnapping Africans and selling them as slaves.
Late Ghanaian diplomat and poet Kofi Awoonor has also written: "I believe there is a great psychic shadow over Africa, and it has much to do with our guilt and denial of our role in the slave trade. We, too, are blameworthy in what was essentially one of the most heinous crimes in human history."
The great early 20th-Century black writer of the Harlem Renaissance, Zora Neale Hurston, bitterly complained that "the white people held my people in slavery here in America. They had bought us, it is true, and exploited us.
But the inescapable fact that stuck in my craw was: My people had sold me … . My own people had exterminated whole nations and torn families apart for a profit before the strangers got their chance at a cut. It was a sobering thought. It impressed upon me the universal nature of greed." And we might add, the universal nature of slavery.
African kings were willing to provide a steady flow of captives, who they said were criminals or prisoners of war doomed for execution. Many were not, but this did not prevent traders posing as philanthropists who were rescuing the Africans from death and offering them a better and more productive life.
When France and Britain outlawed slavery in their territories in the early 19th Century, African chiefs who had grown rich and powerful off the slave trade sent protest delegations to Paris and London. Britain abolished the slave trade and slavery itself against fierce opposition from West African and Arab traders.
In the Arab world, which was the first to import large numbers of slaves from Africa, the slave traffic was cosmopolitan. Slaves of all types were sold in open bazaars. The Arabs played an important role as middlemen in the trans-atlantic slave trade, and research data suggest that between the 7th and the 19th centuries, they transported more than 14 million black slaves across the Sahara and the Red Sea, as many or more than were shipped to the Americas, depending on the estimates for the transatlantic slave trade.
African slave-trading classes were greatly distressed by the news that legislators sitting in Parliament in London had decided to end their source of livelihood. But for as long as there was demand from the Americas for slaves, the lucrative business continued."
In the first place, the Portuguese initiated what eventually became the Trans-Atlantic slave trade mainly through slave raids along the coasts of Africa. The first of these raids came in 1444 and was led by Lançarote de Freitas. The problem with raiding for slaves was that it was extremely dangerous. For instance, the slave trader Nuno Tristão was killed during an ambush.
Slave raiding proved to be an extremely dangerous way to obtain slaves, but buying slaves was much safer and took less effort on the part of the Europeans. Therefore, the first phase of the slave trade began not with a trade, but with a series of raids. This point is especially important because although the slave trade was on some levels based on a partnership between European buyers and African traders, the slave trade did not begin as such.
Moreover, the partnership between the traders and buyers was an uneasy one. The European slave traders often betrayed those who supplied them with slaves. A famous case of this was the African slave trader Daaga who was tricked and captured by slave traders.
He was taken to Trinidad where he would eventually lead a mutiny. Another example is given by Anne Bailey in her book African Voices in the Atlantic Slave Trade. She mentions the story of Chief Ndorkutsu who had been providing captives to the European traders.
Eventually some of the Ndorkutsu's own relatives were tricked into boarding a slave ship and then taken as slaves to Cuba. In some cases, such as that of Madam Tinubu in Nigeria and Afonso of the Kongo Kingdom, those Africans that initially gave African captives to the Europeans came to resist the slave trade. Tinubu had a change of heart when she realized how inhumanely the slaves were treated. Afonso was almost assassinated by the Portuguese after he demanded an end to the slave trade in his kingdom.
Typically wars in West Africa were relatively short affairs that left a small number of causalities. The introduction of European weapons made these wars more drawn out and destructive affairs. Moreover, the only way Africans could acquire these firearms was through the trade of slaves. A king of Dahomey once requested that Europeans establish a firearms factory in his nation, but this request went ignored. Firearms became necessary for African nations to defend themselves both from African rivals as well as from European intrusion, but the only way to acquire these weapons was through the slave trade. This situation only benefited the competing European powers that were able to play Africans against each other.
Finally, the slave trade left a negative legacy on both sides of the Atlantic. The Africans that were brought to the Americas were forced to labor as slaves, while enduring some of the most inhumane treatment imaginable. Those who remained, however, were left to mourn the lost of their friends and relatives that were taken away. A handful of African traders and rulers may have gained some wealth from the slave trade, but overall it was a very negative event for Africa.
There were African kingdoms, such as the Kongo Kingdom, that eventually fell due to the onslaught brought about by the slave trade. We often think of the negative impact that the slave trade had on those who were captured, but the slave trade was also devastating for those who escaped being captured as well.
"Some Africans did play a role in the slave trade and the trade could not have been as large as it was without cooperation from Africans. With that being said, I think many people who have not properly studied the slave trade have a tendency to overstate how involved Africans were in a misguided attempt to shift the blame of the slave trade on Africans" says author Dwayne -Huffington post
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Family Of Luis Rodriguez File Civil Suit Over Death Outside Warren Theater
Thursday, January 22nd 2015, 4:27 PM CST
MOORE, Oklahoma - The family of Luis Rodriguez, the man who died while in police custody outside the Warren Theater in Moore last year, is now suing several of the agencies involved.
The civil suit states that the city of Moore, police officers and even the Warren Theater were at fault in the death.
Nair Rodriguez and her daughter are suing The Warren Theater, The City of Moore, Moore Police Department and the Midwest Regional Medical Center.
The suit stems from a Valentine's Day 2014 visit to the Warren Theater when Nair Rodriguez got into a physical fight with her daughter in the parking lot as her husband Luis Rodriguez was nearby.
Nair says in the lawsuit "several officers and private security tackled her husband to the ground and savagely beat him to death."
She recorded the incident on her cell phone and says she was threatened by officers to be arrested if she did not stop recording and give her phone to them.
The suit states Rodriguez was "pummeled with fists, knees and pepper sprayed until he was bloody and lifeless."
The Cleveland County District Attorney cleared all the officers involved in Luis' death.
The suit goes on to state, "District Attorney Mashburn appears to have a history of justifying the legal use of force, including deadly force against civilians."
12/13/2014 Related Story: Dozens Protest At State Capitol With Rodriquez Family
The family is suing the involved agencies for negligence, excessive use of force, deprivation of rights, and assault and battery, failure to train, supervise and control, infliction of emotional distress, punitive damages.
To help with cases like this in the future, State Rep. Mike Shelton recently filed a bill that would call for the Oklahoma Attorney General's Office to investigate and prosecute officer-involved civilian fatalities.
"My hopes are that in these questionable cases, such as Luis Rodriguez, that there can be another pair of eyes on these cases, so it can be brought forward and justice can be served," Shelton said.
The Rodriguez family call Luis' death senseless and needless saying, "Luis Rodriguez had not broken any laws or committed any crime. There was no basis to detain. He had no weapon and was not under influence of alcohol or drugs."
The family describes Luis as an honest, hardworking, taxpaying, God-fearing Oklahoman, who was never in trouble with the law and worked faithfully as an electrician.
Nair says while Luis's body in the hospital, he was taken to State Medical Examiner's office without her knowing. The suit states "Midwest Regional Medical Center, at the time negligently treated Luis Rodriguez, ultimately causing his death."
The family says the officers "clearly outnumbered Luis Rodriguez and their physical size, strength and combined weaponry to an unarmed Luis Rodriguez did not necessitate the use of force utilized."
As a result the family seeks recovery for the loss of financial support and companionship.
Next month, the Rodriguez family plans to hold a rally on the anniversary of the night he died at the Warren Theater.
The Moore Police Department said they could not comment on the lawsuit.


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It has been such a different year in so many ways in the Town of Lexington. Our community has come together, adjusted and adapted in these trying times, and that is why I am so proud to be your Mayor.
It hasn't been an easy year, however the Town has been resilient and pushed through to continue to make our community a great place to live.
Despite new challenges, the Town has been able to move forward and make great progress on major traffic and quality of life projects.
The new Icehouse Amphitheater Pavilion will soon be completed, and it will be the latest staple for the downtown area. Once we get back to having concerts, vendors will utilize this space during events. We are also excited for it to be the new, permanent home to the Market at Icehouse.
Restoration of the Gibson Pond Park Dam and the Old Mill Dam are both coming along. These projects were a long time coming since the flood of 2015, and the Town is excited to see progress being made to restore these areas. The Town will be installing a one-mile walking trail around the Old Mill Pond which will be a new feature in that area to enjoy.
If you've traveled down North Lake Drive lately, you've seen the Town and construction crews hard at work as preparations are made for the widening of the outbound lane. To help traffic flow better in this area, there will be two lanes of traffic headed away from Town Hall.
Although this year has been different, we are blessed to have been able to help our residents and businesses. During the pandemic, Council established a $1 million small business emergency loan program and cut in-town property taxes by 21 %, marking the third property tax cut in the past 30 years. Council also passed a dollar for dollar rebate program aimed at investing $250,000 into our small businesses, while giving water and sewer customers up to $25 off their monthly utility bill.
During times of uncertainty, calling Lexington home gives hope for the future. Town Council and I hope everyone has a safe and Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
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