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PW in Joe Jencks CD release, Rockville, MD Monday (12/10)!
Dear Folks--
I'm playing in a wonderful show with one of the finest singers and songwriters on the circuit today, Joe Jencks. Joe's celebrating the release of his new CD, "The Candle and the Flame," and has invited me and several friends to do some songs of our own, and accompany him. Here's where and when:
Monday, December 10, 7:30pm, $17 adm.
Institute of Musical Traditions
@Saint Mark Presbyterian Church
10701 Old Georgetown Road
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Purchase tickets online: $14
http://www.imtfolk.org/store/index.html
Joe's assembled a whole band, of which I'll be part, along with keyboardist and songwriter Jon Carroll, who will also be doing a few of his songs. Also along will be Helena Nash on vocals, Cheryl Prashker on percussion, and Karen Michelle Bergmann on cello. It's an extravaganza you won't want to miss!
"The Candle and the Flame" represents some of Joe's most personal writing to date, and it's a CD I'm very proud to be a part of. It went to #2 on the FolkDJ charts, and has brought Joe some of the notice he so richly deserves.
Mark the calendar--my next shows in the area:
March 8 Leesburg, VA, Shenadoah Coffeehouse
April 17 Germantown, MD, Blackrock Center for the Arts, w/ Toby Walker
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Q: Scope of require() in Javascript file I've taken QUITE some time to track down an issue. I have now found what I think the problem was - but I don't understand how/why it should have been a problem in the first place. It has to do with require(...).
//GeneralManager.js
//Dependancies
const Partie = require('./Partie');
const Joueur = require('./Joueur');
const listParties = []

const GeneralManager = {
  add_partie : function(partie_obj){
   //do stuff
},

  demarrer : function () {

    /*THIS is what I don't get - why doesn't the require above work?*/
    const Partie = require('./Partie')
    listParties.push(new Partie(new Joueur('Albert', 'Ramos', 28, 56, 'Espagne'), new Joueur('Milos', 'Raonic', 28, 16, 'Canada'), '1', 'Hale', '12h30', 0));
    //rest of demarrer metho
     },

// rest of the object
 }

module.exports = GeneralManager

//app.js
const GeneralManager = require('./src/GeneralManager')
const gm = GeneralManager
gm.demarrer()

The above works fine. However, if I comment the 2nd import of Partie inside the demarrer function, then I get: TypeError: Partie is not a constructor
How is it so? Do I really have to do multiple require() in each an every function where I need to build that object?

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Antipiracy bill drafted to let private armed guards defend ships
The government will submit an antipiracy bill to the Diet that would allow foreign security contractors aboard Japanese flag-bearing vessels to carry firearms while in waters off Somalia and elsewhere, sources close to the issue said Sunday.
Vessels registered in Japan are prohibited from carrying private armed guards, under the Sword and Firearm Control Law.
Under the bill drafted by the Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Ministry, warning shots will be permitted but firing at people will not, unless in self-defense, the sources said.
Ship owners will be required to disclose details on their equipment and security plans as well as the capabilities of the security staff on board before receiving government approval. They also will be required to submit an application for every journey, according to the ministry's plan.
The legislation would be limited to vessels sailing in piracy-infested waters, such as near Somalia or in the Arabian Sea.
The ministry said 237 cases of piracy were reported around Somalia in 2011, a five-fold increase from 2007.
Many of the pirates are believed to be Somalian hijackers bent on taking the vessels and crew hostage for ransom. In many cases, they are armed with automatic weapons and rocket launchers, they said.
Although many countries, including Japan, have deployed naval forces to protect private ships from piracy, shipping companies say they are being increasingly forced to come up with their own self-defense measures.
Major shipping line Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd. said its vessels have specially shelters the crew can use to protect themselves until help arrives. But an official of the company said the increasing number of attacks might prevent Japanese ships from operating off Somalia unless defensive measures can be improved.
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Q: How to add a callable function to a Sympy expression If I have an expression x = Symbol('x') and f1=x**2 and I want to further add some f2 where f2 = interp1d(t, y) is scipy interpolation. How does one turn f2 into an expression such that I have somthing like f = x**2 + f2(x) so that I can later evaluate f as f.subs(x, some_number)?
Due to specification of the code, I can't evaluate f1 and f2 separatelly and then add the resulting numbers, I need to be able to add it to an existing sympy expression and evaluate it using something like .subs()

A: One way but it requires hard-coding the function to be called in the class:
f2 = lambda t: np.sin(t)

class MyFunc(Function):
    @classmethod
    def eval(cls, arg):
        arg = sympify(arg, strict=True)
        if arg.is_Number:
            return sympify(f2(float(arg)), strict=True)

More like Davide's answer but with a couple of fixes:
class FuncWrapper(Symbol):
    """Wraps a python callable as a Basic instance"""
    def __new__(cls, func, name):
        obj = super().__new__(cls, name)
        obj._wrapped = func
        return obj

    @property
    def wrapped(self):
        return self._wrapped

    def _hashable_content(self):
        return (self.wrapped,) # needed for __eq__

    def eval(self, arg):
        if arg.is_Number:
            return sympify(self.wrapped(float(arg)))

    def __call__(self, arg):
        return Call(self, arg)

class Call(Function):
    @classmethod
    def eval(cls, func, arg):
        arg = sympify(arg)

        result = func.eval(arg)
        if result is not None:
            return result

With that you have:
In [61]: f = FuncWrapper(np.sin, 'f')

In [62]: x + f(x)
Out[62]: x + Call(f, x)

In [63]: _.subs(x, 1)
Out[63]: 1.84147098480790

A: One very risky way would be to create a wrapper object for your numerical function, like this:
from sympy import *
import numpy as np
var("x")

# symbolic expression
f1 = cos(x)
# numerical function
f2 = lambda t: np.sin(t)

class MyFunc(Expr):
    """Create a symbolic wrapper to a numerical function."""

    def __new__(cls, arg, **kwargs):
        obj = Expr.__new__(cls, **kwargs)
        obj._custom_func = arg
        return obj

    def _subs(self, old, new, **hints):
        return self._custom_func(float(new))

expr = f1 + MyFunc(f2)
expr.subs(x, np.pi/4)
# out: 1.41421356237309


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Nearly 300 rough sleepers have sought help during circuit breaker period: MSF
Desmond Lee
Dhany Osman
·Senior News & Video Producer
4 May 2020, 6:38 am ·3-min read
Singaporean politician
A man seen sleeping at a bus stop outside the VivoCity shopping mall in the early hours of 18 April 2020, the 12th day of Singapore's partial lockdown. (PHOTO: Dhany Osman / Yahoo News Singapore)
SINGAPORE — Nearly 300 rough sleepers have come forward to seek shelter or assistance during Singapore's circuit breaker period, said Minister for Social and Family Development Desmond Lee in Parliament on Monday (4 May).
This number includes many who have been affected by travel restrictions, he said while responding to questions from several Members of Parliament.
Lee noted that when the 26-member Partners Engaging and Empowering Rough Sleepers (Peers) Network was formed in July last year, "less than half of the 65 people engaged were willing to accept help".
He added that since the circuit breaker measures were implemented on 7 April, his ministry has worked closely with staff from other frontline agencies such as the police and National Parks Board to refer homeless people and rough sleepers to shelters, social service officers and relevant social service agencies.
"Those who are homeless will not face penalties under the control or the regulations if they are assisted by us," said Lee.
Care packs with hygiene kits and face masks have also been distributed to residents of temporary shelters as well as homeless people on the streets, alongside encouraging them to accept shelter, he added.
The Ministry of Social and Family Development (MSF) is also working with its Peers Network partners to offer their premises as safe, sound sleeping places (S3Ps).
"Since the start of the circuit breaker, our Peers Network S3Ps have expanded both capacity and operating hours to keep our friends indoors, as much as possible. They've allowed the homeless guests to remain in the S3Ps throughout the day and provide them meals," said Lee.
So far an additional 27 new organisations have answered MSF's call to action, bringing the total number of groups offering S3Ps to 35. These organisations include the Singapore Anglican Community Services, Masjid Kassim and Tao One Ltd. HDB has also provided vacant rental flats to MSF's community partners for them to operate S3Ps.
"All the S3Ps are able to accommodate some 700 rough sleepers. Currently, we have about 400 spaces available," said Lee, adding that there are currently about 70 families and 75 individuals in these transitional shelters.
He noted that the pandemic has reaffirmed the importance of close collaboration between government agencies and community partners. "Our aim is not only to keep homeless people in rough sleepers safe during the COVID-19 pandemic but to help them resolve the underlying challenges, and to get back on their feet, beyond this period," said Lee.
Helping homeless access benefits
During the session, Nominated Member of Parliament Anthea Ong asked if steps were being taken to ensure that the homeless would have access to the COVID-19 relief measures earlier announced by the government.
Lee said that even prior to the pandemic, MSF along with its Peers Network partners and other agencies have been helping homeless people here to get access to such support.
"We've been reaching out to people who are homeless and seeing that they get the support they need, including working with CPF board, working with other agencies, so they get the Solidarity Payment and other support," he said.
"For homeless people, our partners reach out to them and tell them about the Temporary Relief Fund, tell them about the COVID-19 Support Grant, tell them about the (Self-Employer Persons Income Relief Scheme), have the forms with them available (and) have the brochures with them," added Lee.
More Singapore stories:
COVID-19: Some sectors 'will have to wait' as Singapore looks to resume normal activities – Lawrence Wong
COVID-19: Singapore confirms 573 more cases, total at 18,778
COVID-19: Gan Kim Yong outlines 3 indicators for easing circuit breaker measures
COVID-19: Man, 60, charged for failing to wear mask, abusing police officers
India jails man for five years in first conviction over deadly Delhi riots
Dinesh Yadav was convicted for being part of a mob that set fire to the house of a 73-year-old woman
Germany's Scholz says 'Europe's borders must not be moved by force'
In a speech via video link to the World Economic Forum, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says that "Europe's borders must not be moved by force". With tens of thousands of Russian troops massed on the Ukrainian border, tensions between Moscow and the West have reached a post-Cold War high and there are growing fears of a major conflict in Eastern Europe.
Young Chin Peng, 63; Adrian Chua Yong Han, 46;, and Chiau Chee Meng, 53, were each handed charges.
Trickle of residents return to Fukushima's last deserted town
Five former residents of the last remaining uninhabited town near Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear plant returned on Thursday to live there for the first time since the 2011 disaster.


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Preparing for a trip to the groomer's salon this morning, we remembered about this photo taking during the summer last year. Timothy's salon is a few stops down the Central Line on the London Underground (that's the "red line" that goes east-west on the tube map), and this photo is from a Central Line train.
It's no mistake that Timothy likes to sit above and behind the seats on the train, for the fans are behind the seats and the air vents are exactly where he is laying! On a hot day, the stream of air is most welcome.


This article is concerned with the production of domestic familial knowledge in connection to the modern Israeli state's geographical terrain. Considering the period stretching from the establishment of the Israeli state in 1948 to the present day, it focuses on a case study of a family album of pictures portraying Israeli subjects in a landscape that is concurrently perceived as the home of the Palestinian as well as the Jewish-Israeli peoples. By attending to Palestinian and Israeli historical accounts that investigate the Israeli state's ideological administration of landscape, alongside the theorization of vernacular photography and the methodologies often used to unpack such imagery, I demonstrate how landscape-family photographs may confront the Zionist "Geographical Imagination" and the physical landscape the Zionist project designed and imposed upon the "Israeli" land. Such photographs, I argue, extend and alter existing Zionist representational regimes, challenging formal Israeli historiography. While this article centers on the production of landscape-family photographs within the Israeli state, it intends to offer an insight into the impact both the commercialization and technological simplification of the photographic medium had on the use of photography in cultural politics. I suggest that photography in this context does much more than simply serve the distribution of power by state officials. In the vernacular, I argue, photography must be read as a potentially subversive apparatus capable of undermining formal doctrines and canonical histories.


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New Scientific Review Raises Scientific and Ethical Questions About the Use of Rodents in Experiments (press release)
Thursday, June 29, 2006 by: NewsTarget
Tags: animal rights, health news, Natural News
https://www.naturalnews.com/019506_review_rats_experiments.html
WASHINGTON (June 27, 2006) -- Standard laboratory housing thwarts the basic behavioral needs of rats, mice, and other rodents, inflicting physiological and psychological harm and raising serious scientific and ethical questions about using these animals in experiments, according to a scientific review in the July issue of the journal Laboratory Animals.
In "Laboratory Environments and Rodents' Behavioral Needs: A Review," author Jonathan Balcombe, Ph.D., an ethologist with the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, examined more than 200 published studies addressing the ill effects of impoverished housing typical of laboratories. Among the many findings: both rats and mice value and will work for the opportunity to forage, build nests, explore, and have social contact; rats kept in impoverished environments have smaller brains than stimulated rats; solitary rats try to escape more than group-housed rats; tens of millions of lab-bound mice dig, gnaw and/or circle neurotically for hours at a time, mostly at night when researchers have gone home; and mice kept in barren cages consume more stress-relieving drugs.
Dr. Balcombe's findings also show that physiological and psychological effects of laboratory housing contaminate scientific data, amplifying the futility of using rodents to advance human health. Unfortunately, the U.S. Animal Welfare Act does not mandate any "environmental enrichment" for rats and mice in laboratories because rodents are excluded from protection under the act.
"These findings provide further evidence that there is no such thing as a humane animal experiment," says Dr. Balcombe. "The studies reviewed here show that the welfare of laboratory-caged rodents is compromised when they are confined, isolated, and allowed to develop stereotypical behaviors."
In 2004, Contemporary Topics in Laboratory Animal Science published a review of the scientific literature by Dr. Balcombe showing that mice, rats, and other animals show marked physiological stress responses to routine laboratory procedures. Dr. Balcombe is also the author of Pleasurable Kingdom: Animals and the Nature of Feeling Good, a new book from Macmillan that explores the scientific and ethical implications of animals' ability to feel pleasure.
For more information or an interview with Dr. Balcombe, contact Patrick Sullivan at 202-686-2210, ext. 311, or [email protected]
Founded in 1985, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine is a nonprofit health organization that promotes preventive medicine, especially good nutrition. PCRM also conducts clinical research studies, opposes unethical human experimentation, and promotes alternatives to animal research.
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Another Century? Hmmph!
by Burkard Polster and Marty Ross
The Age, 9 August 2010
The full forwards are back. Mark LeCras recently kicked 12 against Essendon, Jumping Jack Riewoldt is kicking a bag most weeks, and Bustling Barry Hall is also in the mix. But will any of them get to the century? It's unlikely, but not out of the question.
Lance Franklin was the last AFL player to kick a hundred goals in a season, in 2008. It was only the 57th time it had been achieved, in more than 100 years of the AFL/VFL, by only 28 footballers. It is always a major event, with a grand, eccentric tradition of fans flooding the oval after the hundredth goal.
Of course this celebration of centenaries occurs not just in football. Centuries in cricket are met with great acclaim, and batsmen have to survive the nervous nineties to get there. And, famously, Sir Donald Bradman fell just four runs short of averaging 100 runs over his test career.
Beyond sport, we are forever celebrating centenaries and their multiples. There were huge celebrations last year for Charles Darwin's 200th birthday. This year is the 100th anniversary of the death of the writer Mark Twain, and it is also a milestone for mathematician Robert Recorde, who we recently had cause to mention: this year we celebrate Recorde's 500th birthday. In fact, you don't even have to be famous: make it to your 100th birthday and the Queen will send you a letter of congratulations.
Everywhere, all the time, we're celebrating centenaries. But why, exactly? Sure, 100 is simple to write. But, it's only simply written because we are writing it in our base ten system. For example, if we were Simpsons characters, each with eight fingers, then we'd currently be honoring the 144th Anniversary of Mark Twain's death. On the flipside, yesterday we would have been celebrating Jack Riewoldt's and Barry Hall's 100th goal.
We wrote of all this recently, the importance of not confusing numbers with how we represent them. The question is, ignoring the symbols, is there anything particularly special about the number one hundred?
True, one hundred is a square number, which is quite special. Indeed, this is exactly why one hundred appears as 100 in a suitable base. But then all other square numbers are just as special. So, perhaps we should simply celebrate all multiples of square numbers. It would certainly make for lots of parties:
But even while trying to remove our base ten blinkers, our vision is not so clear. After all, we have to write the numbers in the table somehow, and not surprisingly we have chosen base ten to do so. And, where did we choose to stop our table? Doh!
So, this centenary stuff is intrinsically of very little mathematical meaning. It is culturally and anatomically arbitrary. And, it is really hard to escape.
But why are we suddenly so focused upon belittling centenaries? Well, this happens to be our hundredth Maths Masters column. And how do we feel about that? We're chuffed!
Puzzle to Ponder: Feel free to suggest solutions in the comments section. Please also email us if you wish to be added to our email list.
St. Kilda will, of course, win this year's AFL Premiership. Our desire is to celebrate this great (and rare) event often, so we're willing to honor anniversaries calculated in any base. If we then celebrate every 10th year, in which years will we be celebrating?
Burkard Polster teaches mathematics at Monash and is the university's resident mathemagician, mathematical juggler, origami expert, bubble-master, shoelace charmer, and Count von Count impersonator.
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Michiko Yamamoto (jap. , Yamamoto Michiko, wirklicher Name: Furuya Michiko (); * 4. Dezember 1936 in Nakano, Präfektur Tokio) ist eine japanische Schriftstellerin.

Die Tochter eines Aufzugfabrikanten studierte Literatur an der Atomi-Gakuen-Frauen-Kurzuniversität. Ab Ende der 1950er Jahre veröffentlichte sie mehrere Gedichtbände, darunter Tsubo no naka (; 1959), Midori-iro no hitsujitachi to hitori (; 1960), Kago (; 1961) und Kazaru (, 1962). 1965 heiratete sie Furuya Kazuyoshi, einen Mitarbeiter der Japanischen Fischereigesellschaft, mit dem sie von 1967 bis 1971 in Darwin (Australien) lebte.

Hier entstand die Kurzgeschichte Mahō (), für die sie 1971 den Preis der Literaturzeitschrift Shinchō für junge Autoren erhielt. Ermutigt von Minakami Tsutomu schrieb sie nach ihrer Rückkehr nach Japan die Erzählung Betty-san no niwa (), für die sie 1973 den Akutagawa-Preis erhielt.

In den Folgejahren erschien drei Erzählungsbände: Razō (; 1974), Umi to satōkibi (; 1975) und Shōnen no koe (; 1977); außerdem veröffentlichte Yamamoto zahlreiche Essays und 1976 die Gedichtsammlung Yamamoto Michiko shishū (; 1976).

Von 1978 bis 1982 lebte sie mit ihrem Mann in Seattle. Hier entstanden ihr erster Roman Tenshi yo umi ni mae (; 1981) und der Roman Hito no ki (), für den sie 1985 den Frauenliteraturpreis erhielt.

Quellen

Autor
Schriftsteller (Tokio)
Lyrik
Roman, Epik
Essay
Literatur (Japanisch)
Literatur (20. Jahrhundert)
Japaner
Geboren 1936
Frau
Pseudonym

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Q: Roles using Express 'No authorization token was found' Sup guys! I'm trying to implement Auth0 roles on my SPA, The login/log out functionality works fine.But doesn't know how to add roles permissions. The App its running at Heroku.
Here's my app.js:
const express = require('express');
const cookieParser = require('cookie-parser');
const morgan = require('morgan');
const routes = require('./routes/index.js');
const cors = require('cors');
const { auth, requiresAuth} = require('express-openid-connect');
const jwt = require('express-jwt');
const jwksRsa = require('jwks-rsa');
const jwtAuthz = require('express-jwt-authz');

require('./db.js');

const server = express();

server.name = 'API';

const config = {
  authRequired: false,
  auth0Logout: true,
  baseURL:"https://villatranquila.herokuapp.com/" ,
  clientID: "X0L9KdnZ9YanIX48y.......",
  issuerBaseURL:"https://dev-2py8q024.us.auth0.com/" ,
  secret:"5a64dw6f5h4f64u6ft565eqa6wq65w4x.........."
};

// auth router attaches /login, /logout, and /callback routes to the baseURL
server.use(auth(config));

const checkJwt = jwt({
  // Dynamically provide a signing key
  // based on the kid in the header and
  // the signing keys provided by the JWKS endpoint.
  secret: jwksRsa.expressJwtSecret({
    cache: true,
    rateLimit: true,
    jwksRequestsPerMinute: 5,
    jwksUri: `https://dev-2py8q024.us.auth0.com/.well-known/jwks.json`
  }),

  // Validate the audience and the issuer.
  audience: 'https://villatranquila.herokuapp.com/',
  issuer: `https://dev-2py8q024.us.auth0.com/`,
  algorithms: ['RS256']
});

// req.isAuthenticated is provided from the auth router
server.get('/', (req, res) => {
  res.send(req.oidc.isAuthenticated() ? 'Logged in' : 'Logged out')
});

server.get('/profile', requiresAuth(),  (req, res) => {
  res.send(JSON.stringify(req.oidc.user));
});

server.get('/api/private', checkJwt, function(req, res) {
  res.json({
    message: 'Hello from a private endpoint! You need to be authenticated to see this.'
  });
});

const checkScopes = jwtAuthz([ 'admin:read' ]);

server.get('/api/private-scoped', checkJwt, checkScopes, function(req, res) {
  res.json({
    message: 'Hello from a private endpoint! You need to be authenticated and have a scope of read:messages to see this.'
  });
});

server.use(checkJwt);

server.use(express.urlencoded({ extended: true, limit: '50mb' }));
server.use(express.json({ limit: '50mb' }));
server.use(cookieParser());
server.use(cors());
server.use(morgan('dev'));
server.use((req, res, next) => {
  res.header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin', '*'); // update to match the domain you will make the request from
  res.header('Access-Control-Allow-Credentials', 'true');
  res.header('Access-Control-Allow-Headers', 'Origin, X-Requested-With, Content-Type, Accept');
  res.header('Access-Control-Allow-Methods', 'GET, POST, OPTIONS, PUT, DELETE');
  next();
});

server.use('/', routes);

// Error catching endware.
server.use((err, req, res, next) => { // eslint-disable-line no-unused-vars
  const status = err.status || 500;
  const message = err.message || err;
  console.error(err);
  res.status(status).send(message);
});

module.exports = server;

And here is the Heroku Application Logs ( App starts, I can get to non controlled routes, but when I try to reach controlled ones (/api/private or /api/private-scope) I get "No authorization token was found:"
2021-09-30T19:51:58.170228+00:00 heroku[router]: at=info method=GET path="/api" host=villatranquila.herokuapp.com request_id=70de01d2-4b18-4ede-94c0-f375b1f7d81e fwd="186.39.49.142" dyno=web.1 connect=0ms service=2ms status=401 bytes=2159 protocol=https
2021-09-30T19:51:58.169181+00:00 app[web.1]: UnauthorizedError: No authorization token was found
2021-09-30T19:51:58.169192+00:00 app[web.1]:     at middleware (/app/node_modules/express-jwt/lib/index.js:79:21)
2021-09-30T19:51:58.169193+00:00 app[web.1]:     at Layer.handle [as handle_request] (/app/node_modules/express/lib/router/layer.js:95:5)
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Has the Guardian gone mad about Jimmy Savile?
Has Jimmy Savile driven The Guardian mad? The tabloids, unsurprisingly, seek out the most sensational stories about the now disgraced disc jockey, as though to atone for their devotion to the man when he was alive. One would like to have thought that more serious newspapers would adopt a more sober tone.
The Guardian sometimes prints drivel. One expects nothing else from some of its star columnists, such as Seamus Milne who likes to write approvingly of Vladimir Putin and wistfully of the Soviet Union.
Its editorial columns are usually rather more sensible.
Last Thursday was an exception. Under the headline "Oblivion's Too Good For Him," the newspaper that remains required reading for the British left published an editorial that was so hysterical and so bizarre that it suggested the writer (who is sadly unnamed) might require a few weeks leave to calm himself down.
Its subject was Jimmy Savile. Bemoaning the fact that no Hell exists in which Mr Savile could be condemned to "eternal torment," the editorial went on to make an extraordinary comparison:
"If there is one thing to make the most benign agnostics wish that there were a God to punish sinners with eternal torment, it is the contemplation of history's monsters. Oblivion is too good for the likes of Pol Pot, and for Jimmy Savile, too."
Savile: monster who should rot in Hell?
Pol Pot, of course, was the Cambodian Marxist dictator, who unquestionably, and on the most conservative possible estimate, murdered well over 1,000,000 people.
Let's assume that the worst that anyone has ever said about Jimmy Savile were true. Let's assume, as the Daily Mail reported, that he dragged a girl away to be murdered at Roecliffe Manor Home for convalescent children (although the official inquiry into the Home found "no reference to a death of a child … in any records reviewed," and that it was "not possible to associate [Jimmy Saville] with … abuse at the Home.").
Let's assume, as one alleged victim told the famous therapist Valerie Sinason, that he beat and raped a 12 year old girl in a Satanic ritual while she was a patient at Stoke Mandeville Hospital (although the official inquiry into Stoke Mandeville Hospital found no evidence of any such incident).
Let's assume, as, for example, the Stoke Mandeville inquiry did find (while correctly noting that it did not have the power to "make findings as to criminal or civil liability") that he raped a number of children at Stoke Mandeville, and at other places too.
It would mean that he was a vile and repulsive man. Certainly, if he was a murderer and probably if he was a multiple child rapist it would mean that he should have ended his days in prison rather than feted by the very people who now anathematise him.
But how sensible is the comparison with Pol Pot?
Pol Pot: monster who should rot in Hell
Here is a description of one of the Khmer Rouge prisons:
"The Tuol Sleng school buildings were enclosed with a double fence of corrugated iron topped with dense, electrified, barbed wire. The classrooms were converted into prison cells and the windows were fitted with bars and barbed wire. The classrooms on the ground floor were divided into small cells, 0.8m x 2m each, designed for single prisoners, who were shackled with chains fixed to the walls or floors. The rooms on the upper floors were used as communal cells. Here prisoners had one or both legs shackled to iron bars.
Before being placed in their cells, prisoners were photographed, all their possessions were removed and they were stripped to their underwear. They slept on the floor without mats, mosquito nets or blankets….
Some prisoners were used for surgical study and training while still alive. Blood was also drawn from prisoners' bodies.
Prisoners' babies brought to S-21 with them were killed by having their heads smashed against trees….
Those who died at S-21 were taken to Choeung Ek, outside Phnom Penh, to be buried in mass graves. Inmates of S-21 who survived interrogation were taken to Choeung Ek for execution."
Unsurprisingly, the rape of prisoners often took place before their execution, although as Pot's chief executioner Kaing Kek Iev (known as "Duch") was to reveal after his subsequent arrest, the rapists themselves were then often executed for this "breach of protocol."
As if the Pol Pot comparison were not strange enough, The Guardian also went further back in history, to the reign of Charles II. It noted how:
"The bodies of three of the judges who had condemned his father to death were exhumed, publicly hanged at Tyburn, then decapitated and their heads exhibited on spikes at Westminster Hall, where his trial had taken place."
Generally speaking one can count on The Guardian to oppose hanging and decapitation, even of long dead bodies. I'd never really thought about it but I'd also rather assumed that the public exposure of heads on spikes was not very, I don't know, liberal. Nowadays, of course, the crucifixion of dead bodies and display of severed heads is again in vogue, but The Guardian has rarely, if ever, advocated the practice in its leader columns. The editorial noted, in a balanced way, that this sort of thing "strikes us as primitive and terrible." On the other hand, there is a good deal to be said for it:
"The savage, theatrical desecration captures and discharges something of the rage that Savile's wickedness inspires today."
Excuse me? Did I understand that right? Surely the Guardian is not advocating the digging up the body of a long dead celebrity, hanging him at Tyburn, dismembering him and sticking his head on a spike outside Broadcasting House? In fairness to The Guardian, probably not. The Guardian has Manchester roots and Alan Rusbridger would probably be happier to see the head outside the main entrance to the BBC's northern HQ in Salford.
If practicalities do not allow for Mr Savile to be exhumed the Guardian has another solution as to how our rage at Savile's memory might be assuaged.
"One restitution might involve Savile's fortune: why should his heirs enjoy the money that is surely due in compensation to his victims?"
That's hardly a radical suggestion, although the vast bulk of Savile's estate was left to charity and much of it has already been "enjoyed" by solicitors.
So The Guardian has another suggestion:
"Some kind of public ceremony of what used to be called commination, a ritual expression of public condemnation and disgust."
Traditionally a commination is an Anglican ceremony. One can't really improve upon the Book of Common Prayer for an explanation:
"In the primitive Church there was a godly discipline, that, at the beginning of Lent, such persons as stood convicted of notorious sin were put to open penance, and punished in this world, that their souls might be saved in the day of the Lord; and that others, admonished by their example, might be the more afraid to offend."
A curse is called down upon notorious sinners, most famously, though not terribly appositely in Savil's case, "cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's landmark." Paedophiles don't get a specific mention, though I suppose they are included amongst:
"… the unmerciful, fornicators, and adulterers, covetous persons, idolaters, slanderers, drunkards, and extortioners."
But The Guardian has missed the point of a commination, the idea of which is not to cast dead sinners into Hell but to save them from that fate:
"For though our sins be as red as scarlet, they shall be made white as snow; and though they be like purple, yet they shall be made white as wool. Turn ye (saith the Lord) from all your wickedness, and your sin shall not be your destruction."
Once a sinner is dead it is
"too late to knock, when the door shall be shut; and too late to cry for mercy, when it is the time of justice. O terrible voice of most just judgement, which shall be pronounced upon them, when it shall be said unto them, Go, ye cursed, into the fire everlasting, which is prepared for the devil and his angels."
The Guardian, of course, doesn't trust God to deal with sin. Perhaps it thinks He is in the pay of Big Oil. Its secular commination is for the dead Savile: it consists of the "destruction of his memorials;" and, as it approvingly observes, Savile's gravestone was smashed.
So there we have it.
A national newspaper compares the unproven crimes of Jimmy Savile with the genocide of Pol Pot. The same, respectable, opinion-forming newspaper appears to call for his corpse to be dug up and mutilated, and expresses satisfaction that his grave has been desecrated.
Who could call that hysterical?
Virtually none of today's complainants reported Savile's behaviour whilst he was alive. The reasons given, repeated again and again in the various inquiry reports, is that they thought no-one would believe them, or they thought they would "get into trouble" or that the climate of the times was such that no-one would believe anything ill about a popular superstar.
How times have changed. Nowadays, in the eyes of the Guardian, to express any doubt that the smokey-smelling DJ was a villain comparable to Pol Pot has become a modern blasphemy.
I wonder whether the Guardian appreciates the irony. Somehow I don't think that it does.
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35 thoughts on "Has the Guardian gone mad about Jimmy Savile?"
James Sykes says:
Have you read Anna Raccoon?
Indeed, Anna Raccoon is a brilliant blogger.
Carol Bonington says:
Anna Raccoon is a Savile Denier. She was even called one by a High Court Judge at RCJ. She has spent 3 years (or more) calling ALL those that accused Savile of inappropriate behaviour liars. I would not advice ANYONE to read her versions of what she claims to be truth.
I don't really know what you mean by "Savile Denier". She was at Duncroft School disputes some of the things said about Savile's visits. She does not say that "all those who accused Savile of inappapropriate behaviour are liars." She is a first class blogger and in my experience is careful with her facts. I am aware of the court case to which you're referring: I think we should wait for the judgment. In any case Anna Raccoon was not a party to the case, nor was she called as a witness in it.
Bandini says:
A couple of corrections/clarifications, if I may:
– Anna Raccoon was NOT called a 'Savile denier' (for the love of Christ!) by "a high court judge" but by the legal representative of the defendent – Karin Ward – in the libel case brought by Freddie Starr.
An excellent write-up can be found here:
http://annaraccoon.com/2015/06/24/starr-wars/
Of particluar note is the following comment: "Ms Ward has 'no idea' how the BBC got the impression that she was 14."
Thanks to the work of blogger Rabbitaway, we DO know how the BBC got this impression, as the BBC Newsnight interview (with Liz McKean) in which Ward stated it has been tracked down:
http://rabbitaway.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/clunk-click-lost-and-found.html
– Anna Raccoon was actually NOT at Duncroft at the time Savile was a visitor; in fact, her involvement & interest in the Savile affair can probably be traced back to her amazement at reading reports of incredible goings-on of which she certainly ought to have been aware, had they really taken place.
(It has now been accepted that Savile never stepped foot in the place until 1974, by which point she was no longer resident there, and which of course pours cold water over the fantabulous concoctions of the gang of accusers who claimed that he had been.)
A good place to start for those interested in the truth of the matter:
http://annaraccoon.com/2014/11/30/duncroft-the-finale-part-one/
Stewart Cowan says:
I'm glad you love Christ. I would hate to think you are taking His sacred name in vain.
David Rose says:
Staggering stuff, Matthew. Great piece. What could be worse than (er, not) having abused girls at Duncroft? Next they'll be claiming Savile was a climate change denier 😉
Moor Larkin says:
They missed out Oliver Cromwell. Parliament itself ordered him disinterred, and then hung, drawn and quartered. Maybe Danczuk will put the idea forward as a Private Members Bill in time for the Election.
Oliver Cromwell was certainly a nasty piece of work.
Isn't Oliver credited with the quote that when one of his lieutenants complimented him about the crowds were all cheering for him, Oliver remarked, "They'd just as soon be hanging me!".
Yes that does ring a bell. I've always remembered a quotation from the Ladybird book of Oliver Cromwell. After raising him for his wise leadership in England it had the wonderful line: "He was never cruel, except in Ireland."
rabbitaway says:
Why not 'assume' the obvious instead Matthew ? Several inquiries after the Metropolitan Police and the 6th Emergency service in the UK (after The Sun and Personal Injury lawyers – the NSPCC), what do we actually KNOW as fact ? That the same Police force would have been aware of the SAME claims about Savile, because he was created as a suspect on Holmes the Police National Computer in 2008. An investigation involving several Police forces and numerous local authorities etc, found 'insufficient evidence' to proceed.
A man dead or alive is considered innocent until proven otherwise. To date, NO such proof has been offered by anyone, none !
Who knows what goes on inside of the heads of these so-called journalists. I for one don't care because I can read intelligent blogs like yours and Moor's and all the others who care about truth.
Thanks Rabbit, very kind of you.
clairethinker says:
As you cannot put the dead on trial, such "proof" is not available, but there is plenty of the sort of well-corroborated evidence and testimony from hundreds of witnesses, who would have convinced me and any sensible jury. He himself frequently boasted about his activities to others at the BBC. He told them that he used his caravan for sex with underage girls. The girls agree. Savile is on tape appearing on Have I Got News for You. When Paul Merton asks him what he does in his caravan, he replies with a grin, "Anyone I can get me hands on." He was hiding it in plain view. So it is fair and logical to consider Savile guilty.
A Citizen says:
It was just a long standing joke, another way of saying "mind your own business" each Christmas we'd ask what he'd be doing, depending on the era he'd say "two Bulgarians and a Romanian" or "One blonde dolly bird and a brunette" – just silly bloody answers that we now find amazing are being used to judge him today.
Surprised you haven't quoted his regular "no girls school in the country is safe from me" – get a grip! And hiding in plain sight??? That is just used now to justify why such silly statements were rightly ignored for the silliness that they were.
Am amazed even half intelligent people thought they were anything else.
Apologies for bad grammar, seeing red doesn't bode well for good grammar.
Your message is rude, personally insulting towards me and offensive, to the victims as well as to me If you cannot discuss things without insulting other participants you should be banned as a troll.
Mr Ecks says:
" So it is fair and logical to consider Savile guilty."
Absolute rubbish. There is not one single proven case against him. Most of the tales are just that- tales–and any that have any facts that can still be checked demonstrate Savile's innocence. Such antics as the accusations of abuse at Top of the Pops filmings at the BBC Television centre on pre-1969 occasions when it is a matter of recorded fact that the shows were NOT recorded at the BBC Television Centre prior to the end of 1969.
Anon ;-) says:
What chance go we have? The Khmer Rouge would struggle against this tide of sheer hatred. Ignoring the truth and silencing those who dare not speak up, is akin to Putin's regime with kid gloves – difference is, we think we have fairness and justice, but we don't – which is much worse – The Truman Show springs to mind! Please wake me up when this nightmare is over ! Ranting so much, forgot to say, well done Sir and thank you!
clairethinkerc says:
They are doing this to draw attention away from the growing number of cases of Asian grooming gangs across England. It's not just Rotherham or even a few more, There are dozens of towns with a similar problem. Very young girls are lured in, given drugs, then used for prostitution and gang-rape, sometimes suffering for years on end. The people who want to avoid mentioning this, because it might seem "racist", need to build up Jimmy Savile into a monster big enough to outweigh them all.
Joe Long says:
Well said, it's so obvious but people sadly rarely make the connection.
The more arrests, charges and trials of Muslim grooming gangs the more hysterical these diversions get. The rape, trafficking, pimping epidemic strikes at the root of the Guardian's Religion of Diversity
Slightly off topic – how will we ever know if the evidence that has been given against any fraudulent claim has been listened to? When the compensation is paid later this month, knowing who has and who hasn't been paid will be kept secret. It will just be numbers like at the Appeal hearing in November "56 assessed, 36 disregarded (polite word for fraudulent) and 11 approved.
Who are these 11? What if the scrutinisers provided evidence against these 11 and it was disregarded – how will we ever know????
Can this be right, fair and just?
The idea the Guardian puts forward as a commination seems to be more closely related to the Roman 'damnatio memoriae' – the condemnation of the memory of a hated figure after his death, most famously a loathed emperor such as Domitian or Nero. The protocol was to destroy his statues, remove references in public inscriptions and vitiate any acts done by the memory-condemned man. It was an appropriate (if ultimately futile) approach in a culture that had no real belief in the afterlife but a very high regard for both individual and family reputation. Perhaps we have come full circle?
The claim that Saville was given free rein to use hospitals, schools and so on as his sexual playground is, among other things, an appalling slur upon the countless dedicated people who worked in these institutions. Many people – nurses, doctors, fundraisers, administrators, volunteers – must feel that their careers are now under the most dreadful shadow, that their care and devotion over many years counts for nothing. They cannot speak out and in this national hatefest nobody cares about them. Many will be retired now, what must they think as they listen to the ever more hysterical claims made about their working lives? This is a mad age.
Thank you sir for this blast of good sense amid all the hysteria.
David Mark Parry says:
Excellent Matthew. One of your best. I suppose God must be in the pay of Chrism Oil (jest). You are right, this editorial fails to realise that the Commination Prayer is about forgiveness – hate the sin but love the sinner. Appropriately Salford is the home of the Religious Affairs (soon to be Humanities) Unit.
You will remember the dreadful murder in Bristol of Bijan Ebrahamini, who was wrongly considered to be a paedophile thanks to a crass police investigation into his persecuted by local children on the rough estate where he lived. For me, this editorial is positively dangerous insofar as it fans the flames which continue to burn as a result of the moral panic which has gripped the UK. Such hysteria needs calming down to enable sensible, measured and well informed debate.
It's the same approach I have seen among those who debate child abuse within our society using the term 'holocaust' – the holocaust suffered by those in children's homes or the holocaust that is the witch hunt suffered by the falsely accused. I have spoken to many Jews who suffered during the German Holocaust and made a pilgrimage to Auschwitz. I find the 'H' word is now so totally bound up with the events of the late 1030s – 1940s it is nothing short of a disgrace to identify it with anything other than the very worst acts of mass genocide.
When the General Belgrano was sunk during the Falklands War many will remember the front page of the Sun newspaper with the words "Gotcha". I knew several Royal Naval officers in those days, all of whom objected in the strongest terms to this. One retired captain said, "It us the duty of the armed services to fight those battles demanded of them during times of conflict but few of us enjoy killing as we know the dead all have mothers and some children. They could equally be our friends and our colleagues, and perhaps in another time and in another place will be."
I think these were wise words, calmly considered. It was a shame the editor of the Sun lacked such compassion and wisdom then and it is appalling the Editor of the Guardian lacked the wisdom and good judgment over this very different issue.
Thanks Mark, both for your kind words and the interesting comment.
What a brilliantly argued piece Matthew. It's nice to see that some people haven't succumbed to the rubbish that is printed as so called news in the media.
Slightly off topic.
I noticed that the Health Secretary had to have his say about the allegations. He noted that there was £40 million in the estate of SJS.
What a load of tosh. Jimmy raised approx. 40 million for charities in his lifetime.He wants to pay out claimants regardless of the validity of their claim from this so called pot of gold. He goes on to say that if all that money is used up then a special compensation fund in the NHS will be used to pay claimants.
Jimmy's personal estate amounted to some £3 million, most of which has already been claimed by personal injury lawyers who really only care about their fees.
The remainder of the compensation he wanted to pay out of the SJS Charitable Trust.
Doesn't he realise that the money in that charity came from public sponsorship not from SJS himself. All he did was to put his name to the charity, it isn't his money to be distributed. Only the charity trustees can do that.
I would have thought that a minister of the crown would have been better informed.
Damian, 'better informed' ? Perhaps he needs to change his informants 😉
Can't read this article from the Guardian as I value my mental health, but looking on your Twitter account Matthew, you say they've said "let's desicrate Saviles grave" – i think the owner of said grave may have something to say about this – JS does not own the grave, someone else does – in your or any other readers legal opinion, would the owner have some recourse against the Guardian for inciting criminal damage to someone's property?
eric hardcastle says:
What an extraordinarily insulting article that Guardian piece was to all the victims of Pol Pot and their remaining family members.
And dare we delve into who created Pol Pot , the US invasion of Vietnam and it's decimation of a million souls and so on that eventually gave rise to a murderous regime under Pol Pot.
This was a disgraceful article for The Guardian to run- indeed any publication- and it has seriously damaged the Guardian's reputation, whatever it has left.
To read the comment's section is harrowing as conspiracy rumours run amok as Margaret Thatcher's body is demanded to be dug up along with Savile and burnt at the stake.
Perhaps with Maggie they could do it outside the Ritz where she spent her last days while Savile can be flayed in Leeds' market square.
In this insane Witch Hunt that so many in the British legal establishment and policing forces have so easily caved into and silently accepted the absolute tosh that has been readily accepted : they seem to have forgotten how a good Salem style Witch Hunt progresses.
Having no-one to crucify- Savile, Brittan or Thatcher etc the fanatics turn to the next best thing : those they perceive aided the monsters in their Devil work : the NHS nurses, the local policeman, hospital managers, teachers and so on.
Already there are demands someone be held to account- anyone.
They will not be satisfied though as that is how a witch hunt progresses as Senator McCarthy as more and more victims were found until finally someone challenged him.
Britain is now in the grip of this witch hunt and those promoting it, the gormless media, the silent legal profession, various police forces will find themselves in the firing line.
Hear Hear Eric ! Now that I know the correct spelling for that endorsement. Used to say here here. Silly me
Cedar says:
Perhaps readers could write with suggestions for a public ceremony, the more ridiculous the better, and see which one gets the seal of approval! I wondered what was going on at The Guardian last year after seeing this:
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/shortcuts/2014/jul/02/i-saw-rolf-harris-dark-side-portrait-queen-art
"I asked him if he seriously believed that his portrait was a good work of art.
Anger suddenly crossed his previously beaming face. That dark side … " And that's it. No, wait, there's more. "My blood is starting to boil all over again as I think about that glimpse into an era of lies. Seriously, what cultural malaise was this?"
Let's face it, the Guardian has been mad for a long time. At least thirty years. Run by smug trendy-lefties who honestly imagine they could have the same affluent lifestyle they enjoy here if they lived under a communist regime. The Independent is nearly as bad. The really worrying thing is that the Times has gone the same way and recently the Telegraph has started to do the same. It has shifted sharply to the left, while also (incoherently) assuming a norm of support for EU membership. With the BBC and all main TV channels favouring the trendy-left our national media are overwhelmingly biased and this is a calamity. This country desperately needs a conservative newspaper that defends freedom, prioritizes incentive and excellence over equality, values tradition and upholds our identity as a broadly Christian country.
Mr B J Mann says:
Savile seems to have spent much, if not most, of his time in hospitals, especially trauma hospitals, and much of the time in them seems to have been spent delivering patients to theatre for sedation and then collecting patients from the recovery room after surgery.
Some time ago I heard the following documentary and later found its transcript (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01ksc3b):
Restraining Patients in Intensive Care
Inside the Ethics Committee, Series 8 Episode 1 of 4
First broadcast R4 Thu 19 Jul 2012 21:00?
In which it was said (around seven and a half to eight and a half minutes in) that half of patients who had been sedated suffered from delirium producing hallucinations so lifelike that they could not be convinced they weren't real, and I'm sure it was mentioned in the transmission I heard, that half of those were of a sexual nature, but that does not appear in the transcript.
And more recently in Inside Health (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07z45x4):
Last on Wed 19 Oct 2016 15:30
Dying at Home, Familial Hypercholesterolaemia FH, Delirium:
Where, in the last section, the large number of patients suffering from delirium as a result of their illness and, again, being unable to distinguish the fantasy from reality, was discussed.
Given the large number of, often bizarre, sexual abuse claims that have been in the news in recent years, often linked to hospital patients or anaesthetised dental patients, many subsequently proved to be false, is it possible that these (like alien abduction claims?) are actually the result of these two phenomena, individually, or acting together, and not real abuse?
Ed Ramsbottom says:
Jimmy Savile was a devout Catholic, attending mass daily. His public persona enabled him to care for the sick, the lonely and those in prison as Christ commands. He gave 90% of his earnings and all his bequest to charity. None of the published accusations against him hold water and he died an innocent man.
The fact that our insane, abortion-loving, porn-pushing, child-sexualising, god-hating culture has created a Savile hate fest is not surprising. It's venom is directly proportional to Jimmy'savile kindness, faith and generosity.
Tuan Ewani says:
Either I have lost the plot or others have? It is now excepted Savile was a child abuser at Duncroft, the report (for Rabbitaway) done recently states he was invited by the mother of a girl called { her privacy matters), stated he first visited Duncroft in 1972. ''Tis is the excepted date…NOT the stolen visitors book he signed, now returned to Dr Banardos.
As for Pol Pot, how awful to be lumped with Savile, I send my sympathies to all Victims, no matter what the cause.
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For me, better ballet and looking better in a leo (maybe a new leo?) is reward in itself!
That's it — when I'm dancing well and looking fabulous, I'm going to buy myself a stunning, expensive new outfit!


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Browsing Learning, Society and Religious Education (Peer reviewed publications) by Title
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Learning, Society and Religious Education (Peer reviewed publications)
Bedford Row Family Project: Holding the Suffering
Higgins, Ann; Bourke, Ruth (Mary Immaculate College, 2017)
The BRFP staff includes one full-time Project Leader, and four additional fulltime staff comprising a Social Worker, Information Officer/Hospitality Centre Leader, Family Links Social Worker and Traveller Support Worker. ...
Bedford Row Family Project: Holding the Suffering Summary Report
The services provided by the BRFP embrace an ecological perspective (Bronfenbrenner 1979) in that they see each person, not as an isolated individual but as a member of a family and of the wider community. Consequently, ...
'Behind the teacher's back': an ethnographic study of deaf people's schooling experiences in the Republic of Ireland (Pre-published version)
Deegan, James G.; O'Connell, Noel P. (Routledge, 2014)
Historically, the valuing of deaf children's voices on their own schooling has been underrepresented in educational policies, curriculum frameworks and discursive practices and, in particular, in the debates and controversies ...
Challenging, Confronting and Choosing "New Appraisal" in Initial Teacher Education in the Primary Sector in the Republic of Ireland
Deegan, James G. (SCoTENS, 2008)
Changes in roles and relationships in a school-university partnership
Deegan, James G.; White, C. Stephen; Allexsaht-Snider, Martha (Caddo Gap Press, 1997)
Childhood interrupted: a story of loss, separation, and reconciliation (Pre-published version)
O'Connell, Noel P. (Routledge, 2016)
This essay presents a story of personal loss and childhood trauma experienced by the author in 1968. Written in autoethnographic form, the author narrates a particular time in his life when he lost his hearing and subsequently ...
Children negotiating their own beliefs: The religious education of young children in families in the Republic of Ireland (Pre-published version)
Kieran, Patricia (ACU [Australian Catholic University], 2011)
Classroom teaching and formation: developing educational partnership
Ryan, Sandra; Galvin, John (Peter Lang, 2012)
Conversation: A key to relationship for action
O'Connell, Daniel (Columba Press, 2005)
Daring to be creative: Divine creation as a blueprint for human creativity (Pre-published version)
Kieran, Patricia (Tablet Publishing Company, 2012)
Developing reciprocal support among families, communities and schools: the Irish experience
Ryan, Sandra (Jessica Kingsley, 2000)
Diversity in early years education North and South: Implications for teacher education
Deegan, James G.; Carville, Sheelagh M.; Donnelly, Philomena; Quinn, Louise; McConnell, Barbara; McLaughlin, Helen (The Centre for Cross Border Studies, 2004)
Early Childhood Discourse: Problematising some Conceptual issues in Statutory Frameworks.
Deegan, James G. (Irish Educational Studies: Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2002)
Embracing change: The remodelling of Irish Catholic primary schools in the 21st century (pre-published version)
Kieran, Patricia (Columba Press, 2008)
Evaluation of the Doodle Families Literacy Programme Pilot, Dublin: Childhood Development Initiative
Bourke, Ruth; Higgins, Ann (Childhood Development Initiative, Dublin., 2016)
The Doodle Families Literacy Programme was a pilot programme that was delivered in three DEIS Band 1 primary schools in Limerick during the period of April to June 2015 for First Class children and their parents. Doodle ...
Exploring the spiritual dimension of the school curriculum (Pre-published version)
O'Connell, Daniel (Peter Lang, 2012)
Foundations of Catholic Religious Education in an Intercultural Europe: Introduction.(Pre-Published Version)
Kieran, Patricia (Veritas:Ireland, 2008)
Gender and Religious Education in the Primary Classroom.
Kieran, Patricia (Lumino Press, 2007)
God in the 'bits and pieces of everyday' – sacred objects and human encounter with the divine.
Kieran, Patricia (Teaching Religious Education, 2008)
The home-school-community liaison (HSCL) scheme: summary evaluation report
Ryan, Sandra (Educational Research Centre (St. Patrick's College, Dublin), 1995)


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No confundir con Sam Mejías, beisbolista.

Samuel José "Sammy" Mejia (nacido el 7 de febrero de 1983 en El Bronx) es un exjugador de baloncesto dominico-estadounidense profesional durante trece temporadas. Mide 1,98 metros, y jugaba en la posición de escolta.

 Trayectoria deportiva

 Universidad
Tras su paso por el Theodore Roosevelt High School del Bronx, Mejía cursó sus estudios universitarios en DePaul, jugando durante 4 temporadas con los Blue Demons''. Allí promedió durante todo ese tiempo 12,1 puntos, 4,8 rebotes y 3,2 asistencias. En su última temporada fue incluido en el segundo mejor equipo de la Big East Conference.

Profesional
Fue elegido en el puesto 57 de la segunda ronda del Draft de la NBA de 2007 por Detroit Pistons, equipo con el que firmó contrato en julio de 2007 En 2008 ficha por el AEL 1964 BC de la Liga Griega.

Referencias

Enlaces externos
Ficha de Mejía en NBA.com
Estadísticas de Mejía en ESPN.com
Biografía de Sammy Mejía

Baloncestistas de República Dominicana
Baloncestistas estadounidenses de la Lega Basket Serie A
Baloncestistas de los DePaul Blue Demons
Baloncestistas del AEL 1964
Baloncestistas del Cholet Basket
Baloncestistas de los Fort Wayne Mad Ants
Baloncestistas del CSKA Moscú
Baloncestistas del Orlandina Basket
Baloncestistas del Bandırma Banvit
Baloncestistas del Tofaş Spor Kulübü
Baloncestistas de Nueva York


In the darkest moments live the shadows of the free.
Here come the age-old warnings again, there's rust on every link of the chain, and tonight the stars show us nothing that those unformed hands have deranged.
Here come the age-old warnings again, uncovered like a turn of a page, and a quick look around shows us everything that those unformed hands have changed.
Our peaceful days are filled with the enemies of virgin skies, and the fires from their furnaces burn black halos black in the darkest nights.
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26/06/2017�� Make sure you have enough meat to not only create the entire burger but also to make a hole in the middle for the egg. Flatten the hamburger meat on top of a piece of parchment paper to avoid having it stick to the countertop.
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14/05/2008�� When I'm grilling hamburger patties, I don't use any eggs or cracker crumbs. Here's my recipe for some yummy burgers: 2 lbs lean ground beef 1 T Seasoned Salt 1/2 Tsp fresh ground pepper 1 Tsp Garlic Powder 3 T Worcestershire Sauce 1 Tsp Smoked Paprika Blend the above together and refrigerate for several hours so flavors can blend.


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Grand Casablanca (arabe : ) était une ancienne région marocaine , et l'une des seize régions du Maroc avant le découpage territorial de 2015.

À l'issue de celui-ci, elle a été intégrée avec les provinces d'El Jadida et de Sidi Bennour de l'ancienne région de Doukkala-Abda ainsi que les provinces de Settat, Benslimane et Berrechid de l'ancienne région de Chaouia-Ouardigha dans la nouvelle région de Casablanca-Settat.

Géographie
L'ancienne région du Grand Casablanca était située au nord-ouest du pays et était la région la plus peuplée. Sa superficie était de  km² pour une population  de  habitants (2012). Sa capitale était Casablanca.

La région se situait entre la région de Chaouia-Ouardigha au sud-ouest et la région de Rabat-Salé-Zemmour-Zaër au nord-est.

La région du Grand Casablanca se composait de deux préfectures et deux provinces :
 Préfecture de Casablanca
 Préfecture de Mohammédia
 Province de Nouaceur
 Province de Médiouna

Économie

La région du Grand Casablanca, d'une superficie de , génère à elle seule 19 % du PIB national, possède 40 % des établissements industriels, attire 48 % des investissements et compte 30 % du réseau bancaire. Elle jouit d'infrastructures portuaires, aéroportuaires, ferroviaires et routières qui facilitent la circulation des marchandises et des gens. Le port de Casablanca cumule pas moins de 40 % des échanges extérieurs avec quelque . Celui de Mohammédia 15 %. L'aéroport Mohammed V concentre 40 % des mouvements d'avions avec  et 51 % des mouvements de passagers. Le réseau routier représente un tiers du parc national avec , le réseau ferroviaire comporte  en double voie électrifiée. Le train urbain « Albidaoui » transporte quelque huit millions de passagers par an. Le secteur des services représente 57 % des activités, arrivent en bonne place, l'industrie 41 % et, loin derrière, l'agriculture, la pêche et l'élevage avec 2 %.

Logement
En matière d'habitat, le milieu urbain est dominé par le type marocain (moderne ou traditionnel), qui loge 60,2 % des ménages de la région. 47 % de ces ménages sont des locataires et plus du tiers est propriétaire de leur logement, en milieu urbain. Dans le monde rural, 81 % des ménages sont propriétaires (51,3 %) ou logés gratuitement (29,7 %). Quant au pourcentage des logements reliés au réseau public de distribution de l'eau courante, il se situe autour de 82,5 % des ménages en milieu urbain et de 6,4 % en milieu rural. Quant à l'électricité, le pourcentage des ménages qui en bénéficient s'élèvent à 85,1 % en milieu urbain et à 17,7 % dans le monde rural. Concernant la taille moyenne des ménages de la région, elle est de 5,4 personnes (5,4 dans les villes et 5,5 personnes dans les campagnes). L'indice synthétique de fécondité (nombre moyen d'enfants par femme) est de l'ordre de 2,2 enfants par femme.

Démographie
Près de 4 millions d'habitants dont moins de  sont ruraux.

Préfectures et provinces

Walis du Grand Casablanca

Ce poste a été créé le  par le roi Hassan II.

Voir aussi
 Casablanca
 Casablanca-Settat

Notes et références

Sources
 Les régions du Maroc

Liens externes
 Le Portail officiel de la région du Grand Casablanca
 Le Portail d'actualité de la ville de Casablanca


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Nun Who Will Host the Pope in Armenia Tells of Preparation, Ministry
Francis will rest for a few hours in the "best room we have"
Author: ZENIT | Source: ZENIT (https://zenit.org)
(ZENIT, June 23, 2016).- By M.Z. de la Morena
GYUMRĺ, Armenia — Sister Arousiag proudly points out the dormitory of the convent of Our Lady of Armenia here: it is where Pope Francis will rest for a few hours on the second day of his June 24-26, 2016 visit to Armenia.
"It is the best room we have," she assures a visitor from the international Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), which has been supporting the convent for a number of years.
In the background, a group of children is singing in Armenian; they are rehearsing for when the Pope arrives. The children in question are some of the 37 little ones living in the orphanage run by the Sisters—and whose singing the Pope has in fact already heard, in April 2015, during the Mass celebrated at St Peter's in observance of the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide.
ACN has supported the work of the Sisters here ever since 1997. Their commitments also include running a daycare center for the elderly and a summer camp for orphaned and deprived children. Last year no fewer than 890 young people took part in this summer camp, among them 40 Syrian refugee children.
Upstairs in the convent, where the teenagers live, Anahir, 16, holds a young child in her arms. Her father passed away many years ago and her mom was unable to care for her. She says that the young residents of the convent are "very happy about the Pope's visit and that they spend a lot of time waiting for this moment."
The congregation of the Immaculate Conception in Armenia consists of seven Sisters working in various centers throughout the country. Pope Francis will come to this convent after celebrating Holy Mass in the central square of Gyumrí, which is the second largest city in Armenia, one still bearing the marks of the terrible devastation caused by the earthquake of 1988, in which more than 25,000 people died.
"A visit to the first-ever Christian country"—such is the theme of the papal visit to Armenia. To say 'Armenian' is to say 'Christian' – and this is their greatest source of pride. It was in the year 301 that King Tiridate III first proclaimed Christianity as the religion of the Armenian state, thus making it the first nation in the world to formally adopt Christianity, 12 years before the Emperor Constantine made it legal in the Roman Empire.
Today the majority of the population belongs to the (Orthodox) Armenian Apostolic Church, while the remainder is Armenian Catholics. But for the sisters in the convent, they are not concerned about who is Armenian Orthodox or Armenian Catholic. "It is something we never ask, because it does not concern us; we want to help all people equally," Sister Arousiag assures us.
"We are very grateful to ACN, because you have helped us for many years. We depend on the support of various different organisations, and ACN is one of the best benefactors we have," she explains, as we stand in the convent kitchen. A few yards from her, watching attentively, is Rosa, a woman of 72, who ceaselessly touches the cross that hangs around her neck. "I'm very grateful for everything the sisters do for us," she says. "None of my three sons can take care of me because they live a long way away, and so the sisters are all I have." In the daycare centre for the elderly, the sisters provide three meals daily and also offer them the chance of a hot bath, something they don't usually get, because most houses in the area do not have hot water.
Thanks to the generosity of ACN's benefactors, the sisters of the Immaculate Conception have also been able to offer catechism classes to the orphaned children on their summer camps and been able to improve the daycare centre – in addition to being able to purchase part of the land on which they currently live.
Aid to the Church in Need is an international Catholic charity under the guidance of the Holy See, providing assistance to the suffering and persecuted Church in more than 140 countries. www.churchinneed.org (USA); www.acnuk.org (UK); www.aidtochurch.org (AUS); www.acnireland.org (IRL); www.acn-aed-ca.org (CAN) www.acnmalta.org (Malta)
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