Arrival at the airport and transfer to your hotel in Ljubljana. The Slovenian capital is an architectural gem. The mixtures of baroque style with the modernist Art Nouveau and the work of the architect Joze Plecnik are among its special treasures. The city boasts several cultural events and an impressive social and nightlife. In the afternoon, we will check it out walking through the old town. We will climb our way to the castle overlooking the city, to enjoy the wonderful view. Dinner and overnight.
We will wake up early to embark on a hot air balloon flight over Ljubljana and its surroundings. Then the road will lead us towards Skocjan Caves, named World Heritage by UNESCO, where we will take a walking tour to admire its Karst phenomena and a marvelous subterranean canyon. In the afternoon, we will tour the hand-carved bunkers and tunnels on Sveta Gora Mountain, used for communication and defense during the First World War. After conquering the peak, we will visit the Franciscan church located at the summit, which is one of the most important pilgrimage centers in Slovenia; we will end the day at one of the best wineries in Goriska Brda. Dinner and overnight.
This day will explore the Soca river valley and the Julian Alps. We will drive upstream the valley, making the first stop in Bovec where we will refresh in cold Soca rafting or canyoning, depending on the amount of water. In the afternoon we will cross the Julian Alps to get to Kranjska Gora, where we will ride a bike and push it through the valleys of Sava Dolinka and Radovna (about 35 km mostly downhill). Arriving in Bled. Dinner and overnight.
In the morning, we will visit the marvelous canyon Vintgar. After a walk through the canyon, we will move to the idyllic lake Bled, where we will paddle our way around to its island. Free time to swim or jog. Transfer to the Ljubljana Airport.
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[Champaign] Immigrant Back-to-School Resource Fair
Local immigrant-serving organizations hosting back-to-school resource fair with free food, school supplies, and COVID-19 vaccination clinic
CHAMPAIGN, IL — Six local organizations are hosting a resource fair at the end of the month to support immigrant and refugee families with the transition into a new school year.
The Immigrant Back-to-School Resource Fair will be held on July 31, 2021 from 1:00 – 5:00PM at Crystal Lake Park by the Anita Purves Center. The fair will offer free food and school supplies, community resources, and a vaccination clinic with the goals of (1) kicking off the school year with a bang and (2) fighting vaccine hesitancy.
The First Presbyterian Church of Champaign, New American Welcome Center at the University Y, The Refugee Center, Immigrant Services of Champaign Urbana, Champaign County Healthcare Consumers, and Pixan Konob' Interpreter Services first gathered together in December 2020 with the shared goal of responding to public health inequities. Together, they make up the Champaign County COVID-19 Immigrant Cooperative.
COVID-19 has had a disparate impact on Champaign County, where every 1 in 9 residents is an immigrant and as many as a third of immigrants live in poverty. The pandemic disproportionately affects immigrants, with undocumented or mixed-status families among the hardest hit. Studies indicate that immigrant populations are more than twice as likely to become infected in countries like the United States, and vaccination rates continue to lag for communities of color.
This is where the Immigrant Back-to-School Resource Fair comes in, which will offer:
● Walk-in vaccination clinic in partnership with the C-U Public Health District, and;
● 20+ community organizations to provide information and resources to families on-site, including Champaign Unit 4 School District, Parkland College, and Carle Hospital, and;
● Free food from Kona Ice and Maize Mexican Grill for the first 300 people, and;
● Free school supplies for the first 300 people.
As Jeanette Pyne, ESL Director of the First Presbyterian Church and one of the lead event organizers, put it: "Our overall goal with this event is to serve the immigrant community through providing access to essential resources like the COVID-19 vaccine, a free meal, and free school supplies. We will create an inviting and safe space to learn more about the vaccine and share how the pandemic has impacted us all."
Interested in supporting the fair? Reach out to events@trc-cu.org for more information about how to get involved.

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Caraș-Severin este un județ în regiunea Banat din România, ce are ca reședință orașul industrial Reșița. Situat în partea de sud-vest a României, județul Caraș-Severin are o suprafață de 8514 km2 (3,6% din suprafața țării, ocupă locul al treilea, ca mărime între județele țării) și cuprinde 2 municipii, 6 orașe, 69 de comune și un total de 287 de sate.

În plan european, județul face parte din Euroregiunea DKMT.

Relief
Din punct de vedere geografic, în județul Caraș-Severin se află toate cele trei trepte clasice, predominând însă relieful muntos care ocupă 65% din teritoriu, fiind reprezentat de Munții Banatului, Munții Țarcu, Munții Godeanu și Munții Cernei. De aceea el poate fi considerat ca fiind un județ de munte. Relieful muntos crește în altitudine de la vest spre est, culminând în Munții Godeanului, cu înălțimile lor de 1600-2200 m, se ridică cu mult deasupra părții sudice a Munților Poiana Ruscă și a Munților Semenic, Almăjului, Locvei, Aninei și Dognecei, care au înălțimi cuprinse între 600 și 1400 m. Acești munți sunt separați de culoarele depresionare Bistra și Timiș-Cerna. Spre vest se întind Dealurile Oraviței, Doclinului și Sacoș-Zagujeni, precum și o porțiune restrânsă a Câmpiei Banatului. Cea mai mică altitudine a județului se găsește în zona localității Drencova, fiind de cca. 76 m iar maximul se înregistrează în Vârful Gugu din munții Godeanu la 2.291 m.

Climă
Este de tip continental-moderat cu influențe mediteraneene pe timpul verii. Temperatura medie anuală variază în funcție de altitudine, înregistrându-se astfel 10-11 grade Celsius în zona deluroasă și de câmpie și 4-9 grade Celsius la munte. Precipitațiile cresc de la 700 mm/mp în zonele joase la 1400 mm/mp în Munții Țarcu și Godeanu.

Populație

Date istorice
 102 d Hr. este ridicat castrul roman Tibiscum
 1289 localitatea Caransebeș este atestată documentar sub numele de Opidum.
 1450 Caransebeșul se impune drept centru politic al Banatului de Severin.
 1718 în urma Păcii de la Passarowitz, Banatul intră sub ocupația Imperiului Habsburgic.
 1719 la Bocșa ia ființă uzina de mașini agricole și totodată este pus în funcțiune primul furnal de pe teritoriul României de azi
 1769 se deschid uzinele metalurgice la Reșița
 1783 orașul Caransebeș devine reședință a Episcopiei Ortodoxe Române.
 1817 la Oravița se inaugurează primul teatru zidit din sud-estul Europei.
 1872 a fost construită prima locomotivă cu aburi la Reșița.

Limite
Limitele județului Caraș-Severin sunt în cea mai mare parte conveționale. Se învecinează cu județele: Timiș în nord și nord-vest, Hunedoara și Gorj în est, Mehedinți în est și sud-est, iar Dunărea formează în partea de sud și sud-vest graniță cu Serbia.

Turism
Județul este bogat în stațiuni turistice, parcuri naturale și monumente de arhitectură. O parte din obiectivele turistice se află pe traseul Via Transilvanica, Caraș-Severinul fiind al doilea județ de pe ruta turistică.

Stațiuni
 Băile Herculane - Una dintre cele mai vechi stațiuni din lume, a fost atestată documentar în 153 î.e.n. Pe lângă puterea tămăduitoare a apelor termale și a climatului specific, stațiunea reprezintă și punct de plecare spre Peștera Hoților, Cheile Domogledului, Grota Haiducilor, Cascada Cernei, Grota cu aburi.
 Trei Ape - Stațiune turistică cu lac de acumulare situat la sud de satul Brebu Nou. De la baza acestui lac izvorăște râul Timiș. Adună apele pâraielor Brebu, Grădiște și Semenic, iar apa de deversare din lac împreună cu izvorul de la baza acestuia formează un pârâu ce a fost amintit mai devreme, respectiv Timiș.
 Semenic - 10 km de la Văliug, stațiune turistică cu pârtii de schi pentru începători.
 Crivaia - de la Văliug încă 5 km, la extremitatea sudică a acestuia, într-o frumoasă poiană străbătută de apa râului Bârzava.

Parcuri naționale și naturale

 Parcul Național Cheile Nerei - Beușnița
 Parcul Național Semenic - Cheile Carașului
 Parcul Național Domogled - Valea Cernei
 Parcul Natural Porțile de Fier
 Situl Natura 2000 Munții Țarcu

Arii protejate
 Izvorul Bigăr
 Bârzavița
 Peștera Comarnic
 Fâneața cu narcise Zervești
 Pădurea Ezerișel
 Valea Grețca
 Cheile Gârliștei
 Peștera Popovăț
 Cheile Rudăriei
 Cheile Șușarei

Vestigii și monumente de arhitectură
 Ruinele Cetății feudale din Mehadia
 Teatrul vechi din Oravița
 Cetatea Cuiești, Bocșa
 Castrul roman Centum Putei, Surduc-Banat
 Statuia lui Hercule și Complexul balnear
 Ruinele Cetății Carașova
 Drumul poștalion roman care traversează dealuriile dinspre Oravița respectiv Dunăre.
 Ruinele Cetății Dragomireana situată în apropierea comunei Dalboșeț

Stema județului

A fost adoptată prin Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 684 din 30 septembrie 1998 și publicată în Monitorul Oficial nr. 416 din 15 octombrie 1998.

Stema este compusă dintr-un scut albastru în care se află un legionar roman care poartă în mâna dreaptă scutul cu inițialele VRR (Virtus Romana Rediviva), iar cu mâna stângă sprijinind sulița, toate de argint. Personajul este flancat de câte un ecuson roșu de dimensiuni mai mici, încărcat, cel din dreapta, cu o albină de aur, cel din stânga, cu două ciocane încrucișate, suprapuse peste o roată dințată, ambele din același metal. La baza scutului este reprezentat un pod negru, cu două bolte plutind peste valuri naturale.

Legionarul roman și podul amintesc de intensul proces de romanizare care s-a desfășurat în antichitate în această zonă. Deviza Virtus Romana Rediviva amintește de vitejia ostașilor regimentului de graniță din Banat. Albina evocă tradiționala activitate a locuitorilor, apicultura. Cele două ciocane încrucișate sunt un străvechi simbol al mineritului.  Roata dințată evocă activitățile economice specifice zonei și evidențiază rolul important pe care l-au avut odinioară industria extractivă și metalurgică.

Diviziuni administrative

Județul este format din 77 unități administrativ-teritoriale: 2 municipii, 6 orașe și 69 de comune.
Lista de mai jos conține unitățile administrativ-teritoriale din județul Caraș-Severin.

Politică și administrație

Județul Caraș-Severin este administrat de un consiliu județean format din 30 consilieri. În urma alegerilor locale din 2020, consiliul este prezidat de  de la , iar componența politică a Consiliului este următoarea:

Bibliografie suplimentară
 Monografia istorică a Banatului: județul Caraș, Nicolae Ilieșiu, 2011
 Dicționarul scriitorilor din Caraș-Severin, Victoria I. Bitte, Tiberiu Chiș, Nicolae Sîrbu, Editura Timpul, 1998

Legături externe

 Consiliul Județean Caraș-Severin
 Prefectura Județului Caraș-Severin
 Direcția de Sănătate Publică
 Camera de Comert, Industrie si Agricultura
 Colegii uninominale pentru alegerea Camerei deputaților în județul Caraș-Severin
 Colegii uninominale pentru alegerea Senatului în județul Caraș-Severin
 Administrația Sitului Natura 2000 Munții Țarcu
 Etimologia județului Caras-Severin, unificat de abia la 1880, 11 ianuarie 2013, Stefan Both, Adevărul
 FOTO VIDEO Originea numelor celor mai importante ape din Banatul Montan: Dunăre, Caraș, Cerna, Bistra, Nera, Pogăniș și Bârzava, 13 aprilie 2013, Cristian Franț, Adevărul

Hărți
 Harta turistică a județului Caraș-Severin

Etnografie
 Muzeul virtual al monumentelor etnografice în aer liber din România (județul Caraș Severin)

Vezi și

 Județele României
 Județele interbelice ale Regatului României
 Listă de localități din județul Caraș-Severin
 Listă de comune din județul Caraș-Severin
 Lista monumentelor istorice din județul Caraș-Severin
 Lista rezervațiilor naturale din județul Caraș-Severin
 Galeria de steme și steaguri ale județului Caraș-Severin
 Euroregiunea DKMT
 Listă de publicații din județul Caraș-Severin

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N-Hance Wood Renewal, a national franchise specializing in refinishing hardwood floors and kitchen cabinets, has opened a location in Grand Junction.
As part of a national partnership with Home Depot, N-Hance Wood Renewal has a presence in the home improvement store located at 2436 F Road.
N-Hance cleans, repairs and renews wood floors, cabinets, trim and furniture, in turn saving customers time and money over replacements or traditional refinishing.
"One advantage that really sets us apart from our competitors is that we can, in most cases, begin a wood renewal process when the customer goes to work in the morning and have it completed by the time they get home," said Jon Reid, owner of the N-Hance location in Grand Junction.
Reid's franchise has a presence in three Home Depot stores.
"Homeowners are always amazed at the quality of the results accomplished in such a short amount of time," Reid added. "In addition to the cost, time and convenience perks of N-Hance's services, there is also a green aspect."
N-Hance uses proprietary chemical abrasion and refinishing techniques that require no sanding, producing less dust and mess. The company's Lightspeed Instant-Cure wood refinishing technology shortens the refinishing process while reducing odor.
N-Hance is the only wood finishing service with a presence in Home Depot stores. About a third of customer leads for local franchises are generated by their presence in the home improvement retailer.
Founded in 2001 and based in Utah, N-Hance Wood Renewal operates a total of more than 400 franchises across the United States and Canada with a presence in more than 1,500 Home Depot stores.
For more information about N-Hance Wood Renewal in Grand Junction, call 644-0707 or visit www.nhance.com.
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If you work in the California civil service system, what happens to your job if you suffer a criminal arrest or conviction? Can you lose your job because of the conviction?
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In California, certain criminal convictions can trigger administrative discipline of state employees. Peace officers are held to an even higher standard than other employees, given the officers' duty to uphold the law.
If you're a state civil service employee and face possible adverse action because of a criminal charge, our California Criminal Defense Lawyers might be able to help.1 We represent people accused of crimes, including state employees, and also help them resolve (and avoid) disciplinary actions.
This article discusses the impact of criminal convictions on civil service employment. If you have questions after reading it, we invite you to call us for a consultation.
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When it comes to matters of discipline, including sanctions for suffering a criminal arrest or conviction, the California State Personnel Board regulates civil service employees. The SPB enforces civil service statutes in accordance with the California Constitution.2
Disciplinary "adverse actions" include dismissals, suspensions, demotions and salary reductions.3
Factors to be assessed in connection with a disciplinary penalty are
the actual or potential harm to public service,
the circumstances of misconduct, and
the likelihood of reoccurrence.4
One of the 24 grounds for California civil service discipline of a state employee is conviction of a felony crime or a misdemeanor offense involving "moral turpitude."5
A felony is generally defined as an offense punishable by state prison or death.6
Other offenses (which are not infractions) are misdemeanors. California law defines crimes of moral turpitude as ones involves fraud or dishonesty, the corruption of others, or particularly egregious acts.
As examples, the State Personnel Board has found moral turpitude to exist in cases involving:
fraudulent vehicle registration7
fraudulently collecting unemployment benefits8
battery on a child of sexual nature9
A conviction includes a guilty plea or guilty verdict as well as a conviction following a plea of nolo contendere (or "no contest" plea).
In addition, a conviction for certain California crimes means that you will become ineligible to hold any public office in the state of California. A prominent example is Penal Code 424 PC misappropriation of public funds, which carries this penalty on top of a potential state prison sentence of up to four (4) years.
Yes. Additional considerations come into play with respect to criminal convictions for state employees who are peace officers. This includes officers with the California Highway Patrol, correctional officers employed by the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and special agents with the Department of Justice.
Gov. Code - 1029 - felony convictions
Under California law, a felony conviction disqualifies a person from being a peace officer.10 The disqualification extends to out-of-state felony convictions and expunged criminal convictions.11
There are a few exceptions to the rule, which relate to California Drug Diversion (i.e. PC 1000, or Deferred Entry of Judgment) programs, alternate felony-misdemeanor possession offenses and parole/probation officer jobs.12
A peace officer's Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training certificate will be canceled upon a Gov. Code - 1029 disqualification.13
Misconduct causing discredit to the appointing authority
We've already discussed Gov. Code - 19572, which sets out the causes for state civil service employee discipline. As we've seen, subdivision (k) deals with criminal convictions.
But subdivision (t) also is implicated by potentially criminal run-ins by employees, as it relates to "failure of good behavior either during or outside of duty hours, which is of such a nature that it causes discredit to the appointing authority or the person's employment."
"Discredit to the appointing authority" discipline is not limited to peace officers, but peace officers are held to a higher standard of conduct than other employees.
Peace officers can be disciplined under Gov. Code - 19572 (t) in cases where they were convicted of misdemeanors not involving moral turpitude, and in cases where they weren't convicted of a crime at all but engaged in possibly criminal conduct.14
Let's look at an example:
Example: A peace officer employed with Division of Juvenile Justice leaves work one morning after a night shift, goes to a bar and gets intoxicated. He meets up with another man and a fight ensues. The peace officer brandishes his gun and fires shots. Thankfully nobody is hurt, but the officer is convicted of willful discharge of a firearm in a grossly negligent manner.
The Board decides that a Penal Code Section 246.3 violation does not involve moral turpitude, but that the man deserves to lose his job anyway because it caused "discredit" to the employing agency."15
Change the facts: A supervising cook at a correctional facility is disciplined with a salary reduction after sustaining a California DUI. The State Personnel Board reverses the disciplinary measure because of a lack of nexus between the off-duty misconduct and the job at issue. The cook works at a prison, but he is not a peace officer and is not held to peace officer high standards.16
Non-punitive termination based on inability to carry a gun
Because peace officers are required to carry a gun, certain kinds of convictions can cause the collateral problem of preventing an officer from complying with a job requirement - possibly leading to "non-punitive" termination. Penal Code 29800 (California's "felon with a firearm" law) makes it a crime to own, possess or use a gun if you've been convicted of a felony or certain enumerated misdemeanors.17
Successful completion of a diversion program can be helpful in misdemeanor cases involving the disqualification to carry a gun, as this can avoid entry of "judgment" of conviction.18
As a permanent civil service employee, you have a legally protected interest in continued employment. You are entitled to procedural safeguards in connection with disciplinary actions, including the right to receive notice of the adverse action.
The first stage in the discipline process is the pre-termination Skelly hearing.19 Here you will have the chance to orally plead your case and try to work something out.
The next stop is the SPB Appeals Division. You (or you and your attorney) will have a more formal hearing with evidence and witnesses. The hearing will take place before a hearing officer or an administrative law judge.
After the Board issues a decision, you can file a petition for rehearing. You can also file a writ of administrative mandamus with the trial court.
Our California Criminal Defense Lawyers Can Help.
If you or a loved one is charged with a crime and is a state employee and you are looking to hire an attorney for representation, we invite you to contact us at Shouse Law Group. We can provide a free consultation in office or by phone. We have local offices in Los Angeles, the San Fernando Valley, Pasadena, Long Beach, Orange County, Ventura, San Bernardino, Rancho Cucamonga, Riverside, San Diego, Sacramento, Oakland, San Francisco, San Jose and throughout California.
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1Our California Criminal Defense Lawyers have local Los Angeles law offices in Beverly Hills, Burbank, Glendale, Lancaster, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Pasadena, Pomona, Torrance, Van Nuys, West Covina and Whittier. We have additional law offices conveniently located throughout the state in Orange County, San Diego, Riverside, San Bernardino, Ventura, San Jose, Oakland, the San Francisco Bay area, and several nearby cities.
2California Constitution, Article VII, Section 3 provides: "(a) The board shall enforce the civil service statutes and, by majority vote of all its members, shall prescribe probationary periods and classifications, adopt other rules authorized by statute, and review disciplinary actions. (b) The executive officer shall administer the civil service statutes under rules of the board." See also California Government Code Section 18500, et seq., and California Code of Regulations, Title 2, Div. 1, Ch. 1 (State Personnel Board). In addition to statutes and regulations, collective bargaining agreements may impact terms and conditions of employment.
3California Government Code Section 19570 provides: "As used in this article 'adverse action' means dismissal, demotion, suspension, or other disciplinary action. This article shall not apply to any adverse action affecting managerial employees subject to Article 2 (commencing with Section 19590), except as provided in Sections 19590.5, 19592, and 19592.2." See also Administrative Appeals, prepared by the State Personnel Board Appeals Division (Feb. 2001), p. 10, and State of California Supervisor's Handbook: A Guide to Employee Conduct and Discipline, prepared by Department of Personnel Administration (June 2004).
4Skelly v. State Personnel Board, 15 Cal.3d 194, 217 (1975) [state high court reversed civil service doctor's dismissal for taking excessive lunch breaks, etc., and confirmed doctor's right to pre-termination hearing and other due process protections] ("In considering whether such abuse occurred in the context of public employee discipline, we note that the overriding consideration in these cases is the extent to which the employee's conduct resulted in, or if repeated is likely to result in, harm to the public service. Other relevant factors include the circumstances surrounding the misconduct and the likelihood of its recurrence." Internal citations and quotations omitted)
5California Government Code Section 19572 provides: "Each of the following constitutes cause for discipline of an employee, or of a person whose name appears on any employment list: (a) Fraud in securing appointment. (b) Incompetency. (c) Inefficiency. (d) Inexcusable neglect of duty. (e) Insubordination. (f) Dishonesty. (g) Drunkenness on duty. (h) Intemperance. (i) Addiction to the use of controlled substances. (j) Inexcusable absence without leave. (k) Conviction of a felony or conviction of a misdemeanor involving moral turpitude. A plea or verdict of guilty, or a conviction following a plea of nolo contendere, to a charge of a felony or any offense involving moral turpitude is deemed to be a conviction within the meaning of this section. (l) Immorality. (m) Discourteous treatment of the public or other employees. (n) Improper political activity. (o) Willful disobedience. (p) Misuse of state property. (q) Violation of this part or of a board rule. (r) Violation of the prohibitions set forth in accordance with Section 19990. (s) Refusal to take and subscribe any oath or affirmation that is required by law in connection with the employment. (t) Other failure of good behavior either during or outside of duty hours, which is of such a nature that it causes discredit to the appointing authority or the person's employment. (u) Any negligence, recklessness, or intentional act that results in the death of a patient of a state hospital serving the mentally disabled or the developmentally disabled. (v) The use during duty hours, for training or target practice, of any material that is not authorized for that use by the appointing power. (w) Unlawful discrimination, including harassment, on any basis listed in subdivision (a) of Section 12940, as those bases are defined in Sections 12926 and 12926.1, except as otherwise provided in Section 12940, against the public or other employees while acting in the capacity of a state employee. (x) Unlawful retaliation against any other state officer or employee or member of the public who in good faith reports, discloses, divulges, or otherwise brings to the attention of, the Attorney General or any other appropriate authority, any facts or information relative to actual or suspected violation of any law of this state or the United States occurring on the job or directly related to the job."
6California Penal Code Section 17 provides: "(a) A felony is a crime which is punishable with death or by imprisonment in the state prison. Every other crime or public offense is a misdemeanor except those offenses that are classified as infractions. (b) When a crime is punishable, in the discretion of the court, by imprisonment in the state prison or by fine or imprisonment in the county jail, it is a misdemeanor for all purposes under the following circumstances: (1) After a judgment imposing a punishment other than imprisonment in the state prison. (2) When the court, upon committing the defendant to the Youth Authority, designates the offense to be a misdemeanor. (3) When the court grants probation to a defendant without imposition of sentence and at the time of granting probation, or on application of the defendant or probation officer thereafter, the court declares the offense to be a misdemeanor. (4) When the prosecuting attorney files in a court having jurisdiction over misdemeanor offenses a complaint specifying that the offense is a misdemeanor, unless the defendant at the time of his or her arraignment or plea objects to the offense being made a misdemeanor, in which event the complaint shall be amended to charge the felony and the case shall proceed on the felony complaint. (5) When, at or before the preliminary examination or prior to filing an order pursuant to Section 872, the magistrate determines that the offense is a misdemeanor, in which event the case shall proceed as if the defendant had been arraigned on a misdemeanor complaint. (c) When a defendant is committed to the Youth Authority for a crime punishable, in the discretion of the court, by imprisonment in the state prison or by fine or imprisonment in the county jail, the offense shall, upon the discharge of the defendant from the Youth Authority, thereafter be deemed a misdemeanor for all purposes. (d) A violation of any code section listed in Section 19.8 is an infraction subject to the procedures described in Sections 19.6 and 19.7 when: (1) The prosecutor files a complaint charging the offense as an infraction unless the defendant, at the time he or she is arraigned, after being informed of his or her rights, elects to have the case proceed as a misdemeanor, or; (2) The court, with the consent of the defendant, determines that the offense is an infraction in which event the case shall proceed as if the defendant had been arraigned on an infraction complaint. (e) Nothing in this section authorizes a judge to relieve a defendant of the duty to register as a sex offender pursuant to Section 290 if the defendant is charged with an offense for which registration as a sex offender is required pursuant to Section 290, and for which the trier of fact has found the defendant guilty."
7In the Matter of the Appeal by Douglas Durham, SPB Case No. 36133, 1995 (Precedential Decision) [Pelican State Bay Prison Food Manager demoted to Supervising Cook II after conviction of crimes of moral turpitude involving fraudulent vehicle registration] ("Appellant in this instance engaged in repeated instances of fraud against his own employer, the State of California. The ALJ found that, during the period 1992-1993, appellant willfully and unlawfully registered a 1975 Ford van in Oregon, without paying California vehicle registration fees. During this time period, appellant owned a home in Smith River, California, which was undergoing extensive repairs, although he frequently spent nights at a rented residence in Brookings, Oregon, when it was impossible for him to sleep in his Smith River home. At all relevant times, appellant held a California driver's license, never held an Oregon driver's license, and intended to return to his home in California once the repairs were completed..Moreover, he plead nolo contendere to knowingly making false statements to the DMV, falsifying a certificate of ownership, and registering a vehicle in a foreign jurisdiction without the payment of appropriate fees and taxes to the State of California, in violation of Vehicle Code sections 20, 4463, and 8804, respectively. Accordingly, because the facts upon which the convictions under the Vehicle Code were based involved dishonesty and intentional action to defraud the State of California, we conclude that appellant's convictions were for crimes involving moral turpitude. Furthermore, regardless of whether a separate nexus is required, appellant's convictions based upon intentional fraud against the State of California constitute cause for discipline under section 19572, subdivision (k).")
8Wilson v. State Personnel Board, 39 Cal.App.3d 218, 221 (1974) [civil service employee with Department of Human Resources Development dismissed after being convicted for misdemeanor in connection with collecting unemployment benefits while having part-time work] ("Punitive action, including dismissal, may be taken against state employees for any cause specified in Government Code section 19572; conviction of a misdemeanor involving moral turpitude is among the specified causes. Whether a crime involves moral turpitude is a question of law. Moral turpitude includes fraud; a crime in which an intent to defraud is an element is a crime involving moral turpitude. Violation of section 2101 of the Unemployment Insurance Code involves both intent to defraud and a false statement made for the purpose of perpetrating the fraud. Therefore, section 2101 defines a crime involving moral turpitude." Internal citations omitted)
9Padilla v. State Personnel Board, 8 Cal.App.4th 1136, 1140 (1992) [California Highway Patrol motor carrier specialist dismissed after pleading guilty to battery for fondling breasts of minor daughter] ("The question is one of statutory construction. The statutory phrase 'conviction of a misdemeanor involving moral turpitude' is ambiguous. It might mean conviction of a misdemeanor whose elements constitute moral turpitude or a misdemeanor that by the manner of its commission involves moral turpitude. The latter is the correct reading.")
10California Government Code Section 1029 provides: "(a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), (c), or (d), each of the following persons is disqualified from holding office as a peace officer or being employed as a peace officer of the state, county, city, city and county or other political subdivision, whether with or without compensation, and is disqualified from any office or employment by the state, county, city, city and county or other political subdivision, whether with or without compensation, which confers upon the holder or employee the powers and duties of a peace officer: (1) Any person who has been convicted of a felony. (2) Any person who has been convicted of any offense in any other jurisdiction which would have been a felony if committed in this state. (3) Any person who, after January 1, 2004, has been convicted of a crime based upon a verdict or finding of guilt of a felony by the trier of fact, or upon the entry of a plea of guilty or nolo contendere to a felony. This paragraph shall apply regardless of whether, pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 17 of the Penal Code, the court declares the offense to be a misdemeanor or the offense becomes a misdemeanor by operation of law. (4) Any person who has been charged with a felony and adjudged by a superior court to be mentally incompetent under Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 1367) of Title 10 of Part 2 of the Penal Code. (5) Any person who has been found not guilty by reason of insanity of any felony. (6) Any person who has been determined to be a mentally disordered sex offender pursuant to Article 1 (commencing with Section 6300) of Chapter 2 of Part 2 of Division 6 of the Welfare and Institutions Code. (7) Any person adjudged addicted or in danger of becoming addicted to narcotics, convicted, and committed to a state institution as provided in Section 3051 of the Welfare and Institutions Code. (b) (1) A plea of guilty to a felony pursuant to a deferred entry of judgment program as set forth in Sections 1000 to 1000.4, inclusive, of the Penal Code shall not alone disqualify a person from being a peace officer unless a judgment of guilty is entered pursuant to Section 1000.3 of the Penal Code. (2) A person who pleads guilty or nolo contendere to, or who is found guilty by a trier of fact of, an alternate felony-misdemeanor drug possession offense and successfully completes a program of probation pursuant to Section 1210.1 of the Penal Code shall not be disqualified from being a peace officer solely on the basis of the plea or finding if the court deems the offense to be a misdemeanor or reduces the offense to a misdemeanor. (c) Any person who has been convicted of a felony, other than a felony punishable by death, in this state or any other state, or who has been convicted of any offense in any other state which would have been a felony, other than a felony punishable by death, if committed in this state, and who demonstrates the ability to assist persons in programs of rehabilitation may hold office and be employed as a parole officer of the Department of Corrections or the Department of the Youth Authority, or as a probation officer in a county probation department, if he or she has been granted a full and unconditional pardon for the felony or offense of which he or she was convicted. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Department of Corrections or the Department of the Youth Authority, or a county probation department, may refuse to employ that person regardless of his or her qualifications. (d) Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit or curtail the power or authority of any board of police commissioners, chief of police, sheriff, mayor, or other appointing authority to appoint, employ, or deputize any person as a peace officer in time of disaster caused by flood, fire, pestilence or similar public calamity, or to exercise any power conferred by law to summon assistance in making arrests or preventing the commission of any criminal offense. (e) Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit any person from holding office or being employed as a superintendent, supervisor, or employee having custodial responsibilities in an institution operated by a probation department, if at the time of the person's hire a prior conviction of a felony was known to the person's employer, and the class of office for which the person was hired was not declared by law to be a class prohibited to persons convicted of a felony, but as a result of a change in classification, as provided by law, the new classification would prohibit employment ofa person convicted of a felony."
11Adams v. County of Sacramento, 235 Cal.App.3d 872, 883 (1991) [deputy sheriff with expunged Kansas conviction for burglary and larceny disqualified from position] ("Plaintiff misunderstands the purpose behind section 1029. It is not a concern that the public will learn a convicted felon is working as a peace officer, but an assurance to the public that this will never occur. By virtue of section 1029, no governmental entity can knowingly employ as a peace officer a convicted felon. This includes a felon whose conviction has been expunged. If an exception were permitted for plaintiff, citizens could no longer be certain peace officers with whom they come in contact were not previously convicted of a felony.")
12Boyll v. State Personnel Board, 146 Cal.App.3d 1070, 1075 (1983) [applicant not barred from being a corrections officer by Section 1029, even though she pled guilty to a narcotics offense, because no "judgment" entered on the plea] ("In the case at bench, the facts are undisputed that after appellant had pleaded guilty to a felony charge, the court suspended the further criminal proceedings against her without rendition of judgment or imposition of a sentence and committed appellant to the custody of the Department of Corrections for the purpose of participating in a narcotics rehabilitation program pursuant to Welfare and Institutions Code section 3051. It is likewise without dispute that after a successful completion of the narcotics rehabilitation program the trial court dismissed the criminal charge pursuant to Welfare and Institutions Code section 3200 and thereby released her from all penalties and liabilities, resulting from the offense under Penal Code section 1203.4. The conclusion is thus inescapable that appellant falls squarely within the cases cited above and that in the absence of a judgment of conviction or imposition of sentence she cannot be deemed to be 'convicted' under section 1029 and cannot be deprived of her fundamental civil right to obtain a public employment as a peace officer.")
13California Government Code Section 13510.7 provides: "(a) Whenever any person holding a certificate issued pursuant to Section 13510.1 is determined to be disqualified from holding office or being employed as a peace officer for the reasons set forth in subdivision (a) of Section 1029 of the Government Code, and the person has exhausted or waived his or her appeal, pursuant to Section 1237 or Section 1237.5, from the conviction or finding that forms the basis for or accompanies his or her disqualification, the commission shall cause the following to be entered in the commission's training record for that person: "THIS PERSON IS INELIGIBLE TO BE A PEACE OFFICER IN CALIFORNIA PURSUANT TO GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 1029 (a)." (b) Whenever any person who is required to possess a basic certificate issued by the commission pursuant to Section 832.4 or who is subject to subdivision (a) of Section 13510.1 is determined to be disqualified from holding office or being employed as a peace officer for the reasons set forth in subdivision (a) of Section 1029 of the Government Code, the commission shall notify the law enforcement agency that employs the person that the person is ineligible to be a peace officer in California pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 1029 of the Government Code. The person's basic certificate shall be null and void and the commission shall enter this information in the commission's training record for that person. (c) After the time for filing a notice of appeal has passed, or where the remittitur has been issued following the filing of a notice of appeal, in a criminal case establishing the ineligibility of a person to be a peace officer as specified in subdivision (c), the commission shall reinstate a person's basic certificate in the event a conviction of the offense requiring or accompanying ineligibility is subsequently overturned or reversed by the action of a court of competent jurisdiction. (d) Upon request of a person who is eligible for reinstatement pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (b) of Section 1029 of the Government Code because of successful completion of probation pursuant to Section 1210.1 of the Penal Code, the court having jurisdiction over the matter in which probation was ordered pursuant to Section 1210.1 shall notify the commission of the successful completion and the misdemeanor nature of the person's conviction. The commission shall thereupon reinstate the person's eligibility. Reinstatement of eligibility in the person's training record shall not create a mandate that the person be hired by any agency."
14On the "harm to public service" concept applied in other contexts, such as with regard to city police officers and county deputies, see Ray Jurado, The Harm to Public Service Standard in Police Misconduct Cases, Los Angeles lawyer, July-August 2005.
15In the Matter of the Appeal by Albert Stephens, SPB Case No. 31760, 1994 (Precedential Decision) ("In the instant case, appellant's conduct not only constituted an embarrassment to his position and his employer, but that conduct had the potential to seriously harm the public service. Appellant acted in an extremely irresponsible manner when he became so intoxicated he was completely unaware of his surroundings and then proceeded to joke around and ultimately discharge the semi-automatic weapon he carried only by virtue of his position as a peace officer. Someone could have been hurt or even killed as a result of appellant's reckless behavior.") See also In the Matter of the Appeal by Monserrat Miranda, SPB Case No. 28269, 1993 (Precedential Decision) [Youth Authority Group Supervisor suspended under "discredit to agency" grounds for driving while intoxicated even though no arrest made] ("As a Group Supervisor, appellant is certified as a peace officer under the laws of the State of California. Peace officers may be held to a higher standard of conduct than non-peace officers merely by virtue of their position. The courts have specifically addressed the issue of nexus in connection with unlawful conduct committed off-duty by peace officer employees of the Department of Youth Authority.. Similarly, in Ramirez v. State Personnel Board. the dismissal of a Youth Counselor was upheld on the basis that there was a nexus between the off-duty misconduct of masturbating in a public restroom and the job of Youth Counselor for the Department of Youth Authority.While appellant is not assigned the specific duty of arresting persons for drunk driving, he is nevertheless a peace officer sworn to uphold the law. A peace officer's credibility is bound to suffer when he or she commits a serious violation of the law while off-duty. Driving under the influence of alcohol constitutes serious misconduct. The state has a right to expect more from persons charged with duties which include law enforcement. Appellant's peace officer status weighs in favor of finding a nexus." Internal citations omitted)
16In the Matter of the Appeal by Daniel J. Kominsky, SPB Case No. 28961, 1992 (Precedential Decision) ("Similarly, we find insufficient evidence of a nexus between appellant's off-duty conduct in this case and his job. Nor do we find that the conduct was of such character that it could easily result in impairment or disruption to the public service. This case is distinguishable from the cases cited by the Department in its brief. Most notably, the cases cited by the Department deal with situations involving peace officers, where the rule of law has long been established that peace officers are held to a higher standard of behavior than non-peace officers..In Parker, a youth guidance counselor at the California Youth Authority was disciplined for off-duty possession of marijuana. The Department's analogy is amiss. The Parker Court found that the employee had limited peace officer status and, therefore, he could be disciplined for violating laws he was employed to enforce..While there is clearly a nexus between a person whose job it is to counsel and guide young people convicted for crimes and that employee's possession of illegal drugs, we are not convinced that a similar connection exists between the job of a non-peace officer Supervising Cook I and an arrest for drunk driving.")
17Penal Code 29800 is commonly known in California as the crime of "felon with a firearm." It makes it a crime to own, possess or use a firearm if you've been convicted of a felony or certain misdemeanors, or you are a narcotics addict.
18In the Matter of the Appeal by Michael Sanchez, SPB Case No. 99-1194, 2000 (Precedential Decision) [SPB reversed non-punitive termination of correctional officer for failing to meet job requirements of carrying a firearm in connection with a no contest plea to California Penal Code 243(e)(1)--domestic battery in context of deferred entry of judgment program] ("It is apparent, therefore, that the term "conviction" should be given a broad scope so as to include actual entry of judgment against the individual, at least in those cases where the individual is permitted to participate in a pre-trial diversion program concerning the charged offense. Since as of March 27, 1999 - the date appellant was dismissed from his position as a correctional officer - appellant had not been convicted of a violation of Penal Code section 243(e)(1), he was not precluded from possessing a firearm pursuant to the provisions of Penal Code section 29800. As a result, it was improper for the Department to cite that section as providing justification for appellant's termination under Government Code section 19585.")
19Skelly v. State Personnel Board, 15 Cal.3d 194, 215, supra ("It is clear that due process does not require the state to provide the employee with a full trial-type evidentiary hearing prior to the initial taking of punitive action. However, at least six justices on the high court agree that due process does mandate that the employee be accorded certain procedural rights before the discipline becomes effective. As a minimum, these preremoval safeguards must include notice of the proposed action, the reasons therefor, a copy of the charges and materials upon which the action is based, and the right to respond, either orally or in writing, to the authority initially imposing discipline.") See also California Code of Regulations Section 52.6 provides: "(a) At least five working days before the effective date of a proposed adverse action, rejection during the probationary period, or non-punitive termination, demotion, or transfer under Government Code section 19585, the appointing power, as defined in Government Code section 18524, or an authorized representative of the appointing power shall give the employee written notice of the proposed action. At least 15 calendar days before the effective date of a medical termination, demotion, or transfer under Government Code section 19253.5 or an application for disability retirement filed pursuant to Government Code section 19253.5(i)(1), the appointing power or an authorized representative of the appointing power shall give the employee written notice of the proposed action. The notice shall include: (1) The reasons for such action; (2) A copy of the charges for adverse action; (3) A copy of all materials upon which the action is based; (4) Notice of the employee's right to be represented in proceedings under this section; (5) Notice of the employee's right to respond to the person specified in subsection (b); and (6) A statement advising the employee of the time within which to file an appeal with the SPB." (b) The person whom the employee is to respond to in subsection (a)(5) shall be above the organizational level of the employee's supervisor who initiated the action unless that person is the employee's appointing power in which case the appointing power may respond to the employee or designate another person to respond. (c) The procedure specified in this section shall apply only to the final notice of proposed action."
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http://latindispatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Colombia-ex-president-alvaro-uribe.jpgEx-president of Colombia and visiting scholar at Georgetown University, �lvaro Uribe V�lez.
WASHINGTON � On Nov. 3, as ex-president of Colombia �lvaro Uribe left a class he teaches at Georgetown University as a visiting scholar, a second-year law student named Charity Ryerson hid behind the corner of the Inter-Cultural Center, waiting for a student perched on a hill in front of her to signal that Uribe was about to pass.
Gliding through a hole in his security detail, Ryerson poked Uribe in the chest with a subpoena to appear for depositions in a civil suit accusing Drummond Company of supporting Colombian paramilitaries. �No! No! No!� Uribe said, throwing his hands in the air, according to Ryerson who dropped the document at his feet as process servers often do when someone won�t accept a summons.
Uribe�s appointment as a visiting scholar has touched off a controversy at Georgetown. Many observers credit the U.S.-backed leader�s military offense against the FARC�Latin America�s longest lasting guerrilla army�with restoring a measure of security to a country mired in civil war and drugtrafficking violence for over half a century.
But a group of professors and students at Georgetown University who have banded together as the �Adi�s Uribe Coalition (http://uribe-georgetown.org/category/blog/)� accuse the Colombian leader of involvement in human rights abuses ranging from support of paramilitaries todomestic espionage (http://latindispatch.com/2010/12/06/2010/05/20/colombias-disgraced-das-and-president-uribes-uncertain-legacy/).
Such allegations have plagued the controversial Colombian politician for years, but conclusive evidence of Uribe�s alleged involvement in human rights abuses has not surfaced. But Washington-based attorney Terry Collingsworth has taken advantage of Uribe�s visiting scholar appointment to attempt to force a showdown.
Terry Collingsworth has dedicated much of the last few years to suing American multinational companies in U.S. civil court on the basis of an obscure, 18th-century law called the Alien Tort Claims Statute, which allows foreigners to sue U.S. citizens for damages over violations of international law or treaties to which the U.S. is a signatory.
Legal scholars believe lawmakers intended the Alient Tort Statute to provide a framework for resolving international trade disputes, but it fell out of use for over a century before pioneers including Collingsworth repurposed the law as a tool to bring multinational corporations to court to face allegations of human rights abuses. In a landmark case against Unocal Corporation on behalf of Burmese victims of forced labor, Collingsworth secured a favorable settlement after nine years of litigation.
Colombia has proven a breeding ground for the Alient Tort Claims lawsuits that Collingsworth specializes in. In addition to his latest case against Drummond � Collingsworth has filed at least three � he has represented Colombian plaintiffs in cases against the Coca-Cola Company, Dole and Chiquita.
The current case against Drummond was brought by the heirs to 113 Colombians murdered by the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC, in Spanish), who suspected them of sympathizing with guerrillas. The AUC was Colombia�s largest rightwing paramilitary group, but had been largely demobilized by 2006, lured by government offers of light prison sentences in exchange for testifying about the group�s crimes.
Based largely on the testimony of demobilized paramilitary leaders, the 174-page complaint (.pdf) (http://latindispatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Drummond-Complaint.pdf) alleges that by 1999 Drummond began colluding with the AUC after leftist guerrillas targeted the company�s mining and transportation operations. Key witnesses include former paramilitary leaders Salvatore Mancuso, Rodrigo �Jorge 40� Tovar, Jhon Jairo Equivel Cuadrado, as well as Rafael Garc�a, a former official of Colombia�s intelligence service, known as the DAS.
Drummond has consistenly denied supporting any illegal groups in Colombia. The company�s public relations office declined to comment for this article.
Uribe�s visiting scholar position at Georgetown provided Collingsworth with a unique opportunity. The controversial ex-president of Colombia would visit Washington, where Collingsworth�s office is located, twice a semester for the next year to give lectures.
The complaint accuses Uribe of having a role in supporting paramilitaries tied to the murder of Colombian unionists, though Uribe is not a defendant in the case.
However Isacson added that under Uribe, paramilitaries saw their influence grow. �Paramilitaries thrived as never before in Antioquia when Uribe was governor,� Isacson said.
A District of Columbia federal judge granted Collingsworth�s request on Oct. 26 to subpoena Uribe to appear for depositions. �Mr. Uribe has direct knowledge of several key issues in the case,� Collingsworth said in a press release.
Whatever Uribe may know about those issues, Collingsworth will have to wait to find out.
On Nov. 22 when Uribe was called to appear for depositions at Collingsworth�s office in Washington, he was visiting Honduras, where he received a congressional award for his contributions to democracy.
Uribe�s attorney, Gregory Craig � President Barack Obama�s former top White House lawyer � said in a telephone interview that the government of Colombia had invoked sovereign immunity (http://topics.law.cornell.edu/wex/sovereign_immunity) for Uribe, a doctrine that allows government figures immunity from prosecution for tort claims for acts committed as part of their duties in office. Craig said he informed Collingsworth of the Colombian government�s decision, but did not contest the subpoena.
�Often when people claim sovereign immunity, they don�t appear. The whole purpose of claiming sovereign immunity is that they don�t have to,� said Bert Neuborne, a law professor at New York University.
Collingsworth did not return several phone messages and emails seeking comment for this report.
Uribe�s decision not to appear did not surprise Ryerson. She said that prior to the Colombian government�s intervention, Uribe had claimed she assaulted him when serving him with the summons. �Walking into it, I knew they would try to charge me with assault,� Ryerson said, noting that a charge of assault can invalidate the service of a summons.
Uribe�s attorney declined to comment regarding the allegation of assault, as did the Georgetown University communications office and the campus police.
Image: Center for American Progress @ Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/americanprogress/542420456/).
NATION The petition is contained in a letter dated Nov. 12 signed by the Colombian ambassador to the United States, Gabriel Silva, former Minister of Defense under President Alvaro Uribe.
The Colombian government, through its ambassador to the United States, Gabriel Silva, requested immunity for the president Alvaro Uribe to avoid having to testify in the case against U.S. company Drummond of course support for paramilitary groups in Colombia during the early years of administration, La Fm.
The request is contained in a letter dated Nov. 12 signed by the Colombian ambassador, who was Defense Minister Uribe and to the Department of State of that country.
In that letter, the Government requests �sovereign immunity� for being �head of state� for Uribe, was launched last November 22 to a subpoena as a witness made by the federal court for the District of Columbia (USA) on Drummond case.
The case dates back to 2001, when paramilitaries, allegedly supported by the multinational mining, began a campaign of terror with the murders of Valmore Locarno Rodriguez and Victor Hugo Orcasita Amaya, who practiced then as president and vice president of the union of workers in the Drummond .
The summons which did not attend, Uribe would be asked if he knew the crimes committed by paramilitaries, allegedly supported by the multinational, during the first years of his administration in the department of Cesar, where Drummond operates deposits coal.
From 2001 until demobilized paramilitaries of the AUC killed nearly 70 people in that region.
A group of 500 families of the victims, convinced that Drummond supported and financed the paramilitaries, the United States filed a lawsuit against the mining.
Terry Colligsworth Counsel, which represents families of those victims, confirmed Tuesday to The Fm request for immunity for Uribe and noted that this request should be studied now by the Department of State United States.
He said he does not believe that immunity is granted, since the U.S. laws provide for the privilege to incumbents, but not for exmandatarios.
He also said that �this week� will ask the court to take the case to set a new date for mention again Uribe.
Most crimes committed by paramilitaries in Cesar continues today with impunity, including several officials from the Prosecutor�s Office traveled to the region to investigate.
The little clarified corresponds to the confessions of exparamilitar Rodrigo Tovar Pupo, alias Jorge 40, who after being extradited to the United States assumed their guilt in the murder of trade unionists Locarno and Orcasita.
Jorge 40, who executed the murders while leading the Northern Bloc of the AUC, accepted responsibility for the purpose of obtaining legal benefits, he said at the time his lawyer, Hernando Bocanegra.
In the trial that followed in Colombia for the killing of trade unionists, another exparamilitar, Alcides Matos, aka �Samaria�, said Drummond executives were aware of the intention to murder the leaders.
http://www.soaw.org/img/smancuso.gif Salvatore Mancuso, the former Commander of the right wing United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, testified Tuesday that the paramilitaries, branded �foreign terrorist organizations� by the U.S. State Department in 2001, were aided by high ranking Colombian military officers in training and logistics. Mancuso, testifying in a closed hearing in the city of Medellin, said the Colombian state supported the paramilitaries since their creation in the 1980�s and that �paramilitaries are a state policy�.
Amongst the military and government officials signaled by Mancuso as collaborators are General Rito Alejo del R�o, General Mart�n Carre�o Sandoval, General Harold Bedoya Pizarro, General Fernando Landazabal, Colonel Alfonso Manosalva Flores, and the current Minister of Defense, Juan Manuel Santos. The six men received training or served as instructors at the U.S. Army School of the Americas and have been accused by Mancuso of inciting and promoting paramilitary intervention in certain regions of Colombia.
The strategy of using civilian paramilitary groups and death squads to avoid government oversight and accountability has been a common tactic of SOA/WHINSEC graduates throughout Latin America. Salvadoran SOA/WHINSEC graduate and ARENA party founder Roberto D�Aubussoin established the Death Squads that were responsible for much of the violence in El Salvador in the 1980?s. General Manuel B. Lucas Garcia, who attended the school in 1965 and 1970, masterminded the creation of the Civil Defense Patrols in Guatemala. Mexico�s Jose Ruben Rivas Pena, who took the SOA/WHINSEC�s elite Command and Staff Course, called for the �training and support for self-defense forces or other paramilitary organizations in Chiapas� as a response to the Zapatista uprising in 1994.
The Colombian military is the largest recipient of US military funding and training in Latin America and holds over 60% of the seats available to attend courses at WHINSEC.
The number of �disappeared� in Colombia may be far higher than the official figure of 51,000, according to a report (http://lawg.org/storage/documents/Colombia/BreakingTheSilence.pdf) from the Latin America Working Group Education Fund (http://lawg.org/) (LAWG) and the U.S. Office on Colombia.
Victims of disappearances include human rights defenders, trade unionists, Afro-Colombians, indigenous people, young men and girls in rural conflict zones, members of the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual) community, homeless people, and other groups identified as �undesirables,� according to the report.
The report blames the phenomenon on various groups, saying that �Colombia�s armed forces and police and all illegal armed groups have been responsible for disappearances.� It points out that as paramilitary activity increased in the 1990s, so did disappearances attributed to the paramilitaries.
LAWG cites the �false positives� scandal as a cause of many disappearances in the past decade. The United Nation�s Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Executions, Philip Alston, found that soldiers had committed these killings �in a pattern that was repeated around the country.� In a false positive killing a military, or in some cases guerrilla, �recruiter� lured the victim to a remote location where they were then killed by the military and reported as a combat death. �Within the military,� says Alston, �success was associated with �kill counts� of guerrillas.� By 2010 there were more than 3,000 cases registered in Colombian courts against the military in relation to false positives.
�Every time the government denies that people were disappeared from the Palace of Justice, it�s like they are disappearing our loved ones all over again,� says Alejandra.
Read a Colombia Reports report on the struggle of victims� families here (http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/13150-mothers-demand-clarity-on-fate-disappeared-loved-ones.html).


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Sir Joseph Walton (1849-1923)
1923 Obituary [1]
Sir JOSEPH WALTON, Bart., died on February 8, 1923.
He was born at Bellihope, County Durham, in 1849, and was the son of the late Mr. Joseph Walton.
At the age of twenty-one he went to Middlesbrough to commence a career that was destined to prove one of the most romantic in the North of England. He saw the future that awaited the development of the coal and allied trades, and centred his energies on this phase of business. He became the head of one of the greatest coal-mining businesses in the country. In Durham he was associated with the Shildon, West Durham, and Adelaide collieries, and of his enterprises in Yorkshire, the Carterthorne colliery group in the West Riding was one of his many successes.
He represented Barnsley in Parliament from 1897 to 1922. In recognition of his industrial, political, and other work a baronetcy was conferred upon him in 1910. A Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, he was also a Justice of the Peace for Middlesbrough and the North Riding, and a Deputy-Lieutenant for the North Riding.
He was elected a member of the Iron and Steel Institute in 1878.
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TIAA-CREF sells shares in 4 firms over Sudan ties
Barry B. Burr
TIAA-CREF carried out its first divestments over human rights issues in Sudan, selling its holdings in PetroChina, CNPC Hong Kong, China Petroleum & Chemical (Sinopec), and Oil and Natural Gas Corp. of India, TIAA-CREF announced today.
The holdings, all equities, totaled $33.3 million, less than 1% of TIAA-CREF's $121 billion in equities as of Dec. 31, 2008, the latest figures available, according to Abby Aylman Cohen, TIAA-CREF media relations manager.
"Our decision to sell shares in these companies culminated a three-year effort to encourage them to end their ties to Sudan or attempt to end suffering there," Roger W. Ferguson Jr., TIAA-CREF's president and CEO, said in the statement.
TIAA-CREF warned the companies it "would divest by year-end 2009 from those that refused to acknowledge the genocide (in Darfur) and engage in a productive dialogue about how to confront it," according to the TIAA-CREF statement.
TIAA-CREF stepped up pressure on the four companies and PETRONAS Gas and PETRONAS Dagangan, both of Malaysia, last March and toughened its internal policy to include divestment, said Ms. Cohen. TIAA-CREF owned stock worth $1.3 million and $435,121 respectively as of year-end 2008.
"We have not divested from PETRONAS, which has acknowledged our concerns and engaged in dialogue about how it might address them," Mr. Ferguson said in the statement. TIAA-CREF continues to work with the company on the issue, Ms. Cohen said.
A number of TIAA-CREF portfolios had invested in the four companies, Ms. Cohen said. She was unable to provide information on when the shares were sold.
TIAA-CREF owned $18.5 million in PetroChina stock, $848,920 in CNPC, $10.2 million in Sinopec and $3.8 million in Oil & Natural Gas shares.
TIAA-CREF's "decision regarding portfolio companies with ties to Sudan considered a number of factors, including the gravity of TIAA-CREF's concerns in Sudan … and a conclusion that divestment would have an insignificant impact on the financial performance of participants' portfolios," the statement said.
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I've been asked many times this election season about my picks on various offices and issues. What follows are my personal picks regarding the national and statewide issues and offices, with a few of our San Diego County issues thrown in to boot. Where helpful, I'll attach some commentary for clarity or humor (California propositions tend to visit us from the Twilight Zone).
My in-depth thoughts on appropriate government can be found in the last seven chapters of my book, UNGOD, Unmasking the Dark Image of Hell, but I'll summarize here for brevity. I believe that all charity should be private. Government should never be the hand that doles out or controls charity, ever. I also believe that all education should be private, except for that which is necessary for government to train those necessary for government work (law enforcement, military, etc.).
Trump/Pence. Trump was not my first choice, but we simply must not give the reins of government to Hillary Clinton. She, like Obama, is a small "a" antichrist (see 1 John 2:18). It's sad for me to contemplate, but it seems to me that after 226 years of the U.S. Constitution we are for all intents and purposes finished with Constitutional rule, and are entering the Strongman phase of our Republic's history. We have had a strongman for eight years, and the only way to reset back to Constitutionalism is for a reasonable strongman to forcibly reset government back to within Constitutionalism and then step aside. That is the absolute best for which we can hope. Apart from that, we can hope for a strongman who desires the best for his or her country. Or we can get another one who wants to fundamentally transform this nation into an unrecognizable cesspool.
We have the choice between two Democrats: Kamala Harris and Loretta Sanchez. California is officially out of testosterone at this point. My research seems to indicate that Sanchez is less bad.
Prop 51: No. More ridiculous school funding. They never learn to do it right. Why give them more?
Prop 52: No. Government has no business in healthcare. Don't make things worse.
Prop 53: Yes. Make it harder for them to spend big sums of money.
Prop 54: Yes. Slow the yahoos down, and force them into some transparency.
Prop 55: No. The wealthy owe no more a percentage of their income for supporting healthcare and education than do the poor.
Prop 56: No. Get government out of living off the backs of smokers and dippers. How about just getting government out of where it doesn't belong?
Prop 57: No. Keep the bad guys behind bars.
Prop 58: No. English-immersion in schools is doing fine.
Prop 59: No. This is an assault on free speech.
Prop 61: No. More government meddling in healthcare.
Prop 62: No. Keep the death penalty.
Prop 63: No. We must by all means protect our right to keep and bear arms, and the ammunition they require. All other Constitutional rights depend on this one remaining intact. Stand firmest here.
Prop 64: No. The State wants to legalize marijuana, and grow fat off of taxing it. Nice.
Prop 66: Yes. This strengthens and streamlines the death penalty process.
Prop 67: No. More plastic grocery bag nonsense. This one would outlaw them altogether.
Measure A: No. Taxes are high enough already in the county. Trim your budgets, knuckleheads.
Measure B: Yes. Let them build some new houses. All of our properties were once the wilds or were zoned differently. Get over it.
Measure AA: No. Our taxes are high enough. The high school district should have to budget the same way our families and churches do. My property value is not a golden goose.
Well folks, hope that helps a bit. Make sure you get out and vote this year!
Good, snapshot Pastor! I vote in Minnesota so our big item this ballot was a prop to prevent legislators from raising their own pay.
Thanks Pastor Barry for your comments, thoughts & humor on the election. It was very helpful even though we already voted by mail. We think your Biblical teaching has already influenced & guided us to do our best to vote for what is best for our country, state & town. Thank you for all of your faithful teaching of God's Word & for your highlighting the irony & humor in life as well!
Someone told me I should check out your posts (blogs?), so I did. And I'm glad I did. Finally I can read words from someone who believes the Bible and is able to share with the world in a way that I never could. God has been my only pilot for my whole life. And I used to find it strange that, although I believed in God from my earliest days, and although I managed to read through the Bible three times by the time I was ten years old, I still did not understand salvation until Easter Sunday morning way back in 1965. I wondered an worried about why God made me wait until I was eighteen before he made it clear to me: But now that I'm 72, I think I've finally figured it out (that means God has finally revealed it to me). He's the one who reveals and hides. He's the one who decides whether I win or lose. He's the one in complete control of my life and has been from the beginning. And it is all for my own good. Good to know.
So now when I pray, I start by thanking Him for my losses as well as wins and for my pain as well as… well you get the idea.
And now for your political acumen: I've long tried to explain in Biblical terms why I am for or against this or that candidate or this or that proposition, but I've never been really successful at it. Finally I've found a source from which I can borrow. I hope you don't mind.
Maybe one of these days I can share with you what God has taught me about the nature of faith.


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