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Alumni use Dutch knowledge in home countries
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Alumni from Nuffic programmes like the Orange Knowledge Programme translate what they have learnt in the Netherlands.
For this article we talked to alumni working in water and water management on how they put their knowledge into immediate practice in their home country. By doing so, they hope to help increase the stability of food security there.
Different working methods
Juma Mdeke (in picture) has been back in Tanzania for four months now after taking his Master's degree in Land and Water Development for Food Security at the IHE Delft Institute for Water Education. "I was immediately able to use what I had learnt in the Netherlands. In fact, I do so pretty much every day now", the enthusiastic Tanzanian tells us from Mombo, a town in the north-east of the country. He recounts an example from when he had just returned from the Netherlands to Tanzania. "Following a few days of heavy rainfall, I was able to help farmers remove the top layer of the soil that was no longer useful. I did so using a technique that I'd picked up during my studies in the Netherlands."
Juma can give many more examples. "The working methods here are still very different compared to yours, of course. This morning, for instance, I carried out a quality survey and spoke to a contractor who had been hired to install irrigation channels and footbridges. When he told me that he had finished everything and wanted to be paid, I arrived on the site to find that he had only done half of the work."
Challenge and progress
Despite these types of challenges, Juma is proud of his country's progress. According to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), Tanzania is now experiencing stable growth and producing enough food for its own population. Not everyone has access to this food, however. A WFP report estimates that one third of Tanzanian children under the age of five are malnourished. Another UN report from earlier this month sounded the alarm on global hunger. In the past three years, the number of people suffering from hunger once again rose, after years of decline. An especially sharp increase can be seen in African countries. According to the UN Food and Agricultural Organization, the number of malnourished people living in Sub-Saharan Africa grew from 20.7% in 2014 to 23.2% in 2017. In spite of these alarming reports, Juma prefers to focus on the success stories. He mentions a few "champion farmers" in Mombo whom he has taken under his wing. "Due in part to the knowledge about irrigation that I gained in the Netherlands, their production has increased from 5-7 tonnes of rice per hectare to 10 tonnes. The next challenge for them is to sell these harvests as efficiently as possible."
Qualitative data
These thoughts are echoed by Lucia Lema (left in picture below), also from Tanzania. Lucia earned her Master's degree in Water Science and Engineering from IHE Delft in 2016, studying on an NFP scholarship (a predecessor to the Orange Knowledge Programme). She believes that it is important for food security in Tanzania to become more stable. "We can manage our products much more efficiently, which is another thing of which I really became aware in the Netherlands. For example, we actually have a surplus of certain products here at times, such as tomatoes. The reason is that farmers are now used to growing this crop at a specific time of year, which results in a huge heap of tomatoes at the peak of the harvest period that can no longer be sold. Solving these kinds of problems requires qualitative data, which I realised during and after my studies in the Netherlands."
Shared benefit
After obtaining her Master's degree, Lucia began working for the Tanzanian government. She now works for the National Irrigation Commission in the Dodoma District of central Tanzania. Lucia has noticed that she often needs to persuade people in Dodoma to participate in the programmes which she develops. "People in rural areas tend to think that government projects only benefit the government and not the locals themselves. A key part of my job here is to convince everyone otherwise.
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Alumni from Nuffic programmes like the Orange Knowledge Programme translate what they have learnt in the Netherlands.For this article we talked to alumni working in water and water management on how they put their knowledge into immediate practice in their home country. By doing so, they hope to help increase the stability of food security there.Different working methodsJuma Mdeke (in picture) has been back in Tanzania for four months now after taking his Master's degree in Land and Water Development for Food Security at the IHE Delft Institute for Water Education. "I was immediately able to use what I had learnt in the Netherlands. In fact, I do so pretty much every day now", the enthusiastic Tanzanian tells us from Mombo, a town in the north-east of the country. He recounts an example from when he had just returned from the Netherlands to Tanzania. "Following a few days of heavy rainfall, I was able to help farmers remove the top layer of the soil that was no longer useful. I did so using a technique that I'd picked up during my studies in the Netherlands."Juma can give many more examples. "The working methods here are still very different compared to yours, of course. This morning, for instance, I carried out a quality survey and spoke to a contractor who had been hired to install irrigation channels and footbridges. When he told me that he had finished everything and wanted to be paid, I arrived on the site to find that he had only done half of the work."Challenge and progressDespite these types of challenges, Juma is proud of his country's progress. According to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), Tanzania is now experiencing stable growth and producing enough food for its own population. Not everyone has access to this food, however. A WFP report estimates that one third of Tanzanian children under the age of five are malnourished. Another UN report from earlier this month sounded the alarm on global hunger. In the past three years, the number of people suffering from hunger once again rose, after years of decline. An especially sharp increase can be seen in African countries. According to the UN Food and Agricultural Organization, the number of malnourished people living in Sub-Saharan Africa grew from 20.7% in 2014 to 23.2% in 2017. In spite of these alarming reports, Juma prefers to focus on the success stories. He mentions a few "champion farmers" in Mombo whom he has taken under his wing. "Due in part to the knowledge about irrigation that I gained in the Netherlands, their production has increased from 5-7 tonnes of rice per hectare to 10 tonnes. The next challenge for them is to sell these harvests as efficiently as possible."Qualitative dataThese thoughts are echoed by Lucia Lema (left in picture below), also from Tanzania. Lucia earned her Master's degree in Water Science and Engineering from IHE Delft in 2016, studying on an NFP scholarship (a predecessor to the Orange Knowledge Programme). She believes that it is important for food security in Tanzania to become more stable. "We can manage our products much more efficiently, which is another thing of which I really became aware in the Netherlands. For example, we actually have a surplus of certain products here at times, such as tomatoes. The reason is that farmers are now used to growing this crop at a specific time of year, which results in a huge heap of tomatoes at the peak of the harvest period that can no longer be sold. Solving these kinds of problems requires qualitative data, which I realised during and after my studies in the Netherlands."Shared benefitAfter obtaining her Master's degree, Lucia began working for the Tanzanian government. She now works for the National Irrigation Commission in the Dodoma District of central Tanzania. Lucia has noticed that she often needs to persuade people in Dodoma to participate in the programmes which she develops. "People in rural areas tend to think that government projects only benefit the government and not the locals themselves. A key part of my job here is to convince everyone otherwise.Source: Nuffic
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Local Status: Rare and very local resident. Under-recorded due vast majority
Flight time: One generation, Sep-Nov.
Foodplant: Beech, birches, elms, Alder, hazel.
Number of records 1 47 8 40 36
Number of individuals 1 387 11 187 53
Unique positions 1 6 3 18 4
Unique locations 1 6 3 15 4
Adult records 1 47 8 40 36
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Sutton & Beaumont, 1989: There are very few confirmed records for this species but when genitalia preparations were made of similar 'November Moths' taken at Pannal, Harrogate (VC64), forty-three per cent were found to be this species. All these would have been counted as E. dilutata (Denis & Schiffermuller) without this special attention so it is likely that it is quite common in the County. Dunn and Parrack (1986) believe it is probably more western in distribution than the other Epirrita species in Northumberland and Durham but whether this will prove to be the case in Yorkshire is not clear as yet.
2012 (CHF): Separation of the four Epirrita species is fraught with difficulty. Pale November Moth is generally much less common than November Moth especially in gardens but can be locally common in mature broad-leaved woodland. The map shows records confirmed by dissection. Unless they have been dissected they are best logged as "November Moth agg". Page 94 of Waring, Townsend and Lewington (Field Guide to the Moths of GB and Ireland, second edition) shows how the males can be determined.

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Allotinus fabius, the angled darkie, is a small butterfly found in India, Myanmar and South East Asia that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family.

Range
Naga Hills, Myanmar, Borneo and Philippines. Nagas to Karens. Malaya

Status
Very rare.

See also
List of butterflies of India
List of butterflies of India (Lycaenidae)

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Allotinus
Butterflies of Asia
Butterflies of Borneo
Butterflies described in 1887

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Media Ownership Monitor Latin America
Media Ownership Matters
Mass media influence the way facts are viewed and debated in the society. Independence and pluralism in media, public opinion and views— including criticism of people in power— are the safeguards of a healthy democracy. Monitoring and ensuring ownership pluralism is the first step toward independence and freedom of choice.
How can people evaluate the reliability of information if they don't know who provides it? How can journalists work properly if they don't know who controls the company they work for? And how can media authorities address excessive media concentration if they don't know who is behind the media's steering wheel?
Ownership structure may also affect the way the media industry manages its resources. It shapes the economic strength and efficiency of the media sector, which is of particular interest to potential investors.
MOM thus aims to create transparency and to answer the question "who eventually controls media content?" in order to raise public awareness, to create a fact base for advocacy to hold political and economic players accountable for the existing conditions.
In order to break the biggest obstacle against plurality: the lack of transparency, the Media Ownership Monitor (MOM) analyzed the people who control the most powerful media in Latina America, the most concentrated continent. The countries analyzed are Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and Peru.
Regional Overview Latin America
Indicators of Risk to Media Pluralism
Media Audience Concentration
Media Ownership Concentration
Regulatory Safeguards: Media Ownership Concentration
Cross-media Ownership Concentration
Regulator Safeguards: Cross-media Ownership Concentration
Ownership Transparency
Regulatory Safeguards: Ownership Transparency
(Political) Control Over Media Outlets and Distribution Networks
(Political) Control Over Media Funding
Regulatory Safeguards: Net Neutrality
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Media Ownership Monitor 2017
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Starz's Spartacus could begin making way for another gladiatorial party during its third and final season. Executive producer Robert Tapert (also a producer behind the Evil Dead series and Xena: Warrior Princess) is in the early stages of working on a spin-off, with little details known other than the fact that it will center on Julius Caesar. Big J.C. will be introduced as a character when the show returns in January.
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What might Black Lives Matter learn from Africanist scholars who have studied inequality outside the US, especially in Africa?
March on Tillary Street in New York. Image credit Doug Turetsky via Flickr CC.
Lisa A. Lindsay
Moses E. Ochonu
Frederick Cooper, who recently retired from the history department at New York University (NYU) and for many years taught at the University of Michigan, is one of the giants of African studies, history, and qualitative social science. Since the mid-1970s, he has produced ten single-authored books, numerous co-authored and edited books, and more than 115 articles and chapters, many of which have been translated into a number of different languages. The quality and originality of Cooper's work has shaped not only African studies, but also the theory and methods of the social sciences more broadly. Furthermore, through his commitment to mentoring PhD students, Cooper has played a distinguished role in producing new generations of Africanist historians, anthropologists, and scholars in other fields.
The influence of Fred Cooper's work has extended far beyond the academy. As he rose to prominence in the 1970s, he became a forceful and influential contributor to debates about African economies and strategies for economic development. In his famous 1981 essay "Africa and the World Economy," Cooper argued for reaching beyond smug assumptions of teleological economic change by which Africa might eventually move toward European-style industrialization and "modernity," while at the same time taking issue with radical stances that blamed African poverty on the continent's subordination to and exploitation by the world economy. His insistence on the primacy of African actors, and on respecting and documenting the reasons they chose to pursue particular strategies, has influenced scholars as well as development practitioners, economic planners, and public spheres in Africa. Similarly, the power of his work on empire has been a critical counterweight to successive waves of apologists for European colonialism, who not only sanitize the brutal history of empire but argue for reimposing it on countries deemed "failed states."
In the age of Black Lives Matter, scholars and the general public are paying renewed attention to historical systems of oppression and exploitation—slavery, colonization, racism—and their memorialization and preservation in institutions and structures. What might BLM activists learn from Africanists and other scholars who have studied inequality in different contexts?
There is a real tension between the importance of addressing the pain that comes from the history people of African descent have faced of enslavement, colonization, and racism, and addressing issues of inequality across time and space. This tension can be a source of fruitful exploration. The histories of enslavement, colonization, and racism are not "out there" but right here; one cannot understand the United States or France any more than Nigeria or South Africa without a focus on these subjects. We live in a day and age when most thinking people will not defend, as was possible until a startingly recent time, these structures, but the way they shaped the institutions we live with remains profound. It is important as well to keep our attention on how political actors have engaged with unequal structures and tried to change them. Revolution and oppositional solidarity are essential parts of the story, but not the only ones. That is why I am drawn to Senghor's insistence on conjugating horizontal and vertical solidarities. Unequal relationships are still relationships and they can be pushed and pulled on. Studying history gives us instances where small cracks in an edifice of power can be forced open, as well as instances where there has been no realistic alternative to all-out struggle. Studying history doesn't tell us what strategies should be pursued in the present, and historians should be aware of both the value and the limits of what they have to offer to new generations of activists. But studying history does give us examples of different forms of engagement and their consequences. Right now, the need for political engagement even within deeply flawed structures is particularly acute.
As a white American historian of Africa who early in his career had a foot in African American history, how do you interpret the racial politics of our field, which has gone through several phases and tends to resonate differently with different generations of Africanists?
African Americans have been interested in Africa since the 19th century, and African American scholars were among the pioneers of studying Africa in the 20th century. As Jean Allman showed in the Presidential Address to the ASA in 2018, some of the pioneers of African studies in the United States, including Melville Herskovits, worked to marginalize African-American scholars as they sought to make African studies respectable to elite universities. By the early 1970s, when I was in graduate school, the ASA was among the institutions whose failure to address the situation of African Americans in the profession and the particular meanings that Africa had to people of African descent was coming under fire. The relatively few people of color in senior positions faced burdens that their white colleagues did not; they were likely to be put on every committee studying any question having to do with race, and to embody themselves universities' slow repudiation of decades of discrimination. At that time, African American graduate students were more likely to focus on African American than African history, and the presence of African Americans in the field has only slowly improved. The field of African history is more inclusive than it was then and tensions are less, but there is nothing to be complacent about. African American students I have worked with have certainly challenged me on many questions, but none has challenged me on the basis of my race. Perhaps there were students who didn't take my courses for that reason, and I think it is important that students see that there are white scholars who have interesting things to say about African history and that there are African American scholars who are contributing to French, British, German, or American history.
One trend that has greatly affected African history in the United States is the relationship of American scholars to our African colleagues, both here and in Africa. When I went to Kenya as a doctoral student in 1972-73 and returned in 1978-79, I found at the University of Nairobi an intellectual atmosphere far more inspiring than anything I had encountered in the United States or England. The debates in seminars were intense, the level of scholarship very high. There were annual meetings of historians and a lively journal. In the 1980s, Kenyan historians suffered a dual blow, the repressiveness of the government of Daniel arap Moi and the loss of resources following the global recession, exacerbated by the arrogant and cruel policies of structural adjustment. These factors pushing the most critically engaged scholars out of some African countries were added to the fact that African scholars, like those anywhere else, responded to opportunities in an academic community that crossed continents. The American academy has been greatly enriched by this Africa connection. When I started doing research in Senegal in 1986, Dakar was still the place to be. I encountered there a group of historians who were both extraordinarily talented and welcoming. I remember a particular evening when Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch happened to be in town and I went to a dinner in her honor. Catherine and I both sat spellbound as we listened to a dialogue between members of the younger and older generations of Senegalese historians, a dialogue that was both respectful and challenging. Some of the people I met then have since found the conditions for teaching and research to be too constraining for them to exercise their talents and they too have enriched the American academy, while others have stayed the course in Senegal. African scholars have benefitted from the efforts of CODESRIA to develop intra-African networks for research, debate, and publication. I just participated in a seminar for graduate students in Senegal organized by Babacar Fall of the Université Cheikh Anta Diop—virtual because of COVID—that discussed some of my work on labor and citizenship and in which more than 50 people joined the Zoom. Taken together, these stories underscore the importance of institutional support for African institutions and exchanges linking Africa with other parts of the world. The talent and the interest are there. What are lacking are resources and well-functioning institutions.
What are you working on now, and why?
Jane Burbank and I have been thinking for some time about writing a sequel to our empires book, but the project might be taking a new direction. We're working on what began as a talk, turned into an attempt to write an article, and may end up as a short book to be called something like EurAsia, EurAfrica, and AfroAsia: Reimagining Political Space. We're interested in how people, in different political contexts, thought of futures that crossed continental divides, addressed head-on histories of unequal power relations—particularly the hegemony of western European states—and sought to reduce inequality through thinking of new forms of mobilizing connections. The project is in part inspired by Senghor's writings about vertical and horizontal solidarities, the very different trajectories of the three forms of political imagination, and the consequences of so much of the world being unable to transcend conventional political boundaries. We'll see how far we go along these lines.
What big questions do you think should shape the field in the future?
I don't think it's the place of a 72-year old Africanist to answer that question. It's for younger scholars to figure out.
Adapted from Wisdom & Wit: A Distinguished Africanist Reflects . (ASA News)
About the Interviewee
Frederick Cooper was a professor of history at the University of Michigan (1982-2001) and New York University (2002-2019).
Lisa A. Lindsay is a professor of history at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.
Moses E. Ochonu is a historian of modern Africa.
Frederick Cooper, who recently retired from the history department at New York University (NYU) and for
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African Studies scholars write for the gate-keepers, to prove our own legitimacy, for the stimulation of conferences and the relief of rising recognition by algorithms.
David Graeber, Africanist
Christopher J. Lee
David Graeber (1961-2020) started his career as a scholar studying Madagascar and that informed what became his popular ideas about anarchism, debt, and globalization.
How African is the 'African Studies Review'?
Benjamin N. Lawrance
The journal's editor acknowledges that it has a long way to go before most Africa-based scholars recognize it as an especially African journal.
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What censorship about articles in a French journal tells us about the state of France-Africa relations, imperial legacies and the impact these have on the production of knowledge about Francophone Africa.


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[G.R. No. L-32018. April 30, 1979.]
GOVERNMENT SERVICE INSURANCE SYSTEM, Petitioner, v. GSIS SUPERVISORS UNION and COURT OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS, Respondents.
GOVERNMENT SERVICE INSURANCE SYSTEM, Petitioner, v. GSIS EMPLOYEES ASSOCIATION and THE COURT OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS, Respondents.
Leopoldo M. Abellera and Lorenzo Mosqueda, Office of Gov't Corp. Counsel for Petitioner.
Cecilio B. Magadia, Jr. for respondent GSIS Supervisors Union.
Jose Espinas for respondent GSIS Employees Union.
L-32018 — Through the Government Corporate Counsel, the GSIS received a copy of the Industrial Court's Order on April 30, 1970. Its motion for reconsideration, filed on May 5, 1970, was denied by the Court on the ground that it was filed beyond the 4-day reglementary period provided for in Section 17-A of the Rules of the Court of Industrial Relations. The lawyer assigned to the case explained that from April 28 to 29 and on May 2, 1970, he was in Baguio City in connection with another case; that May 1, 1970 was Labor Day, holiday, and May 3, was a Sunday; that the following day, May 4, 1970, he was absent due to second degree burns on his left leg; and that it was only on the fifth day that he learned of the adverse order the lost on time in filing on the same day the motion for reconsideration.
The Supreme Court held that the reasons advanced by Counsel for his admitted failure to file the motion for reconsideration are not constitutive of excusable negligence. Adequate measure should have been taken by the Office of the Government Corporate Counsel so that Court processes may be promptly and properly attended to even on non-working days and even in the absence of the attorney assigned to the case.
L-32397 — The GSIS claims that the Industrial Court erred in finding the GSIS financially capable in meeting the demand for salary increases, for not being supported by evidence. The Court's conclusion was based on the Statement of Income and Expenses and the testimony of the Assistant General Manager of the System for Accounting that the System can meet the claim for salary adjustment.
The Supreme Court held that as long as the Industrial Court's decision is supported by evidence, such decision may not be revoked just because it is not based on overwhelming evidence.
1.	COURT OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS; MOTION FOR RECONSIDERATION; FOUR-DAY REGLEMENTARY PERIOD IS JURISDICTIONAL. — The four-day period within which to file a motion for reconsideration provided for in Section 17-A of the Rules of the Industrial Court is jurisdictional and mandatory and failure to comply with it is fatal.
2.	ATTORNEY'S GOVERNMENT CORPORATE COUNSEL; NEGLIGENCE; OFFICE OF CORPORATE COUNSEL REQUIRED TO PROMPTLY ATTEND TO COURT PROCESS. — The failure of the Office of the Government Corporate Counsel to file the motion for reconsideration within the reglementary period due to illness of the lawyer assigned to the case is not constitutive of excusable negligence. Considering the matters being handled by the Office of the Corporate Counsel, which involves public funds, it should have taken adequate measures so that Court processes may be promptly and properly attended to even on non-working days and even in the absence of the head of office or the attorney assigned to the case.
3.	APPEAL; INDUSTRIAL COURT; FINDINGS OF FACT. — As long as there is evidence to support a decision of the Court of Industrial Relations, such decision may not be revoked or reversed just because it is not based on overwhelming or preponderance of evidence.
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1.	MOTION FOR RECONSIDERATION; DELAY; EXCUSABLE NEGLIGENCE. — When three of the four days allotted by the industrial court's rules for the filing of a motion for reconsideration in certified cases were non-working days and nevertheless petitioner's counsel-in-charge was further more occupied with the hearing of another case in Baguio and had fallen sick besides on the only working day of the four-day period, the one-day delay in the filing of petitioner's motion for reconsideration may certainly be deemed excusable. The real purpose behind the limitation of the period of appeal is to forestall or avoid an unreasonable delay in the administration of justice and to put an end to controversies. Where no element of intent to delay the administration of justice could be attributed to movant, a one-day delay does not justify the denial of a motion for reconsideration.
MELENCIO-HERRERA, J.:
On review by Certiorari are: 1) the Order of the Court of Industrial Relations dated April 29, 1970 in IPA Case No. 87 (8) entitled Government Service Insurance System Supervisor's Union (GSISSU) v. Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) now G. R. No. L-32018, and 2) the Order of the same Court dated June 10, 1970 in IPA Case No. 87 (9), entitled Government Service Insurance System Employees Association — PAGE (GSISEA-PAGE) v. GSIS, GSISEA-CUGCO, Intervenor, now G. R. No. L-32397.
The antecedent facts are as follows: On January 1, 1968, petitioner GSIS implemented a new and higher pay scale to which the salaries of all GSIS employees and officials were adjusted according to a uniform pattern. The increase or adjustment was equivalent to the next higher rate in the new scale not necessarily the next higher step in that new scale. For instance, in Pay Class 12, the first step under the old scale was P12,000. In the new scale, the first step was P12,600. Therefore, the employee receiving P12,000 under the old scale would receive an adjustment of P600.00. 1 However, it was discovered that some employees headed by Manuel Perlada (Pay Classes 7 to 13) received higher salary readjustment although some of them were merely "acting designees." Other employees belonging to the rank and file (Pay Classes 1-6) supposedly members of GSISEA-CUGCO received the same adjustments as the aforementioned employees also effective January 1, 1968. Members of the GSISSU and the GSISEA-PAGE did not. This caused a growing agitation among the rest of the GSIS officials and employees for the grant to them of the same benefits.
In a letter dated March 19, 1970 addressed to the GSIS General Manager, Mr. V. N. Magadia, as President of GSISSU, requested for a one (1) rate increase of salary for all employees and officials of the GSIS. Magadia also expressed the general sentiment and feelings of discrimination of the employees due to the bigger adjustments given to some employees who were merely acting designees in their positions (Exhibit "D"). Mr. Federico Romero, Personnel Manager of GSIS, in a Memorandum dated March 19, 1970 addressed to the GSIS General Manager, also recommended the extension of the same benefits given to certain employees to all other employees of the System even if it was to entail a budget of P4 million (Exhibit "A").
Apparently, no immediate action was taken by the GSIS on the matter. Hence, GSISSU and GSISEA-PAGE filed their Petition against the GSIS with the Court of Industrial Relations on March 19, 1970 (IPA Case No. 87 [8]), and March 20, 1970 (IPA Case No. 87 [9]), respectively. Both Petitions alleged that the GSIS, to discourage membership in their respective Unions, by-passed their members and others in promotion in pay in the bargaining unit they represented, while the GSIS unduly favored a number of employees who were members of GSISEA-GUCGO by granting said employees increases in pay effective January 1, 1968. Petitioners also alleged that despite demands made upon the GSIS to grant them a similar one (1) rate increase in pay effective January 1, 1968, the latter refused to grant said demands, and that as a consequence, petitioners had to retain counsel on a contingent basis. (The matter of attorney's fees claimed by Attys. Magadia and Uy is the subject of another appeal in G. R. No. L-32772). Petitioners then demanded the same increase effective January 1, 1968.
On April 1, 1970, the GSIS filed identical Oppositions to the Petitions alleging that pursuant to GSIS Board Resolution No. 1461, approved on September 3, 1968, all officials and employees of the System covered by the collective bargaining agreement of March 26, 1968 were given and paid the salary increases and adjustments effective January 1, 1968 subject to the terms and conditions provided therein.
Both cases were jointly tried by the Court of Industrial Relations.
On April 17, 1970, GSISEA-GUCGO filed a motion for Intervention in IPA Case No. 87 (9) (GSISEA-PAGE v. GSIS), which was allowed by respondent Court. In its Answer in Intervention filed on April 25, 1970, GSISEA-CUGCO averred that the increases given to some of its members were part of the collective bargaining agreement signed between the GSIS and GSISEA — CUGCO; that even before the implementation of said increase, Mr. Evangelo Savellano, acting President of GSISEA-CUGCO, in a letter dated February 10, 1970 to the General Manager of GSIS, demanded the implementation of the collective bargaining agreement for all members of GSISEA-CUGCO (Exhibit "I"); that as the representative of 2,500 members of GSISEA-CUGCO, intervenor prayed that should the Court be minded to grant the one (1) rate increase to petitioners (GSISEA-PAGE), the same be extended also to all its members (GSISEA-CUGCO), without any deduction of attorney's fees being claimed by Attys. Magadia and Uy.
After hearing, the Court of Industrial Relations issued the challenged Order, dated April 29, 1970, in IPA Case No. 87 (8) (GSISSU v. GSIS), the dispositive portion of which reads as follows:jgc:chanrobles.com.ph
"WHEREFORE, respondent GSIS is hereby ordered to cease and desist from discriminating against petitioner, its members and other employees in the unit of supervisors, and to grant to all of said employees the same salary readjustment/increase as those already granted to Manuel Perlada and other members of GSISEA-CUGCO provided they have not reached the maximum step of their respective pay classes."cralaw virtua1aw library
The records show that respondent GSIS received a copy of the above Order on April 30, 1970. Respondent GSIS filed its motion for Reconsideration of the Order of April 29, 1970 on May 5, 1970, which was opposed by petitioner GSISSU on the ground that said Motion for Reconsideration was filed out of time. On May 8, 1970, the Court of Industrial Relations en banc denied the Motion for Reconsideration as it was filed beyond the reglementary period provided by section 17-A of the Rules of the Court of Industrial Relations. GSIS filed a Notice of Appeal on May 29, 1970.
In the meantime, hearing in IPA Case No. 87(9) (GSISEA-PAGE v. GSIS) continued in view of the intervention filed by GSISEA-CUGCO. Other incidents pertaining to attorney's fees were also being resolved by the Court of Industrial Relations, subject matter of other appeals in G.R. No. L-32772 and G.R. No. L-32854.
However, on June 10, 1970, the Court of Industrial Relations issued the Order in IPA Case No. 87 (9) (GSISEA-PAGE v. GSIS, GSISEA-CUGCO, Intervenor), the decretal portion of which reads:jgc:chanrobles.com.ph
"WHEREFORE, the respondent is hereby ordered to grant all rank and file employees (Pay Classes 1 to 6) the same salary readjustment/increase as that already granted to Manuel Perlada and other members of intervenor GSISEA-CUGCO provided they have not yet reached the maximum step of their respective pay classes; and to deduct from the employees in Pay Classes 1 to 6 who are entitled to salary readjustment an amount equivalent to 15% of their respective recoveries as and for attorney's fees and to deposit the amount to deducted in Court for further disposition.
"SO ORDERED."cralaw virtua1aw library
The GSIS filed a Motion for Reconsideration of the aforestated Order on June 25, 1970, which was denied by the Court of Industrial Relations en banc in its Resolution dated June 30, 1970. Consequently, the GSIS filed its Notice of Appeal on August 14, 1970.
The Petition for Review by Writ of Certiorari filed by the GSIS in G.R. No. L-32018 (IPA Case No. 87 [8], GSISSU v. GSIS) was given due course by this Court on June 18, 1970; while the Petition for Review by Writ of Certiorari in G.R. No. L-32397 was given due course on September 4, 1970.
In G. R. No. L-32018, respondent GSISSU Filed a Motion to Dismiss Petition for Review on June 22, 1970. Said Motion was based primarily on the ground that the Order of the Court of Industrial Relations dated April 29, 1970 had already become final and executory as the Motion for Reconsideration of the same was filed beyond the four (4) day period provided in Section 17-A of the Rules of the Court of Industrial Relations. GSISSU averred that the Order of April 29, 1970 was received by GSIS on April 30, 1970. Therefore, GSIS had up to May 4, 1970 to file its Motion for Reconsideration. GSIS filed its Motion for Reconsideration on May 5, 1970, or one day beyond the reglementary period. In a Resolution of this Court dated June 30, 1970, petitioner GSIS was required to submit its Comment on the Motion to Dismiss. In the Comment filed on July 16, 1970, Atty. Lorenzo Mosqueda, Assistant Government Corporate Counsel alleged that although copy of the Order of April 29, 1970 was received by their Office on April 30, 1970, he received the questioned Order only on May 5, 1970. He attached to the Comment a Certificate of Appearance issued by the Clerk of Court of the Court of Industrial Relations attesting that he appeared at hearings in Baguio City on April 28-29, 1970 and May 2, 1970. He also attached a notarized medical certificate issued by Dr. Orlando Misa of the GSIS to the effect that he was under medical treatment for second degree burns on the left leg and ankle on May 4, 1970. He then prayed that under the circumstances and in justice and fairness to the GSIS, its Motion for Reconsideration should be considered as filed within the reglementary period. Only July 17, 1970, this Court denied the Motion to Dismiss of respondent GSISSU. which then filed its Answer on August 13, 1970.
Petitioner filed its Brief in G.R. No. L-32018 on October 23, 1970, and in G.R. No. L-32397 on November 11, 1970. On December 10, 1970, respondents GSISSU And GSISEA-PAGE moved for the consolidation of the two cases on the ground that they involved identical issues. The Motion for Consolidation was granted on December 14, 1970. Respondents GSISSU and GSISEA-PAGE filed their joint Brief on January 11, 1971, which GSISEA-CUGCO, intervenor, filed its Brief on December 3, 1970.
G.R. No. L-32018
In G.R. No. L-32018, petitioner GSIS assigns the following errors:chanrob1es virtual 1aw library
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RESPONDENT CIR COMMITTED A GRAVE ABUSE OF DISCRETION TANTAMOUNT TO LACK OF JURISDICTION WHEN IT ISSUED THE ORDER OF APRIL 29, 1970, ANNEX "C" OF THE PETITION, AND AFFIRMED BY THE COURT EN BANC ON MAY 8, 1970, ANNEX "E" OF THE PETITION, EVEN IF THE CASE WAS NOT YET TERMINATED;
"II
RESPONDENT CIR COMMITTED A GRAVE ABUSE OF DISCRETION TANTAMOUNT TO LACK OF JURISDICTION WHEN IT ISSUED THE ORDER OF APRIL 29, 1970, ANNEX "C" OF THE PETITION, AND CONFIRMED BY THE COURT EN BANC IN A RESOLUTION DATED MAY 8, 1970, ANNEX "E" OF THE PETITION, WHEN IT HELD THAT YOUR PETITIONER IS FINANCIALLY CAPABLE TO MEET THE ONE STEP SALARY ADJUSTMENT CONSIDERING THAT THERE IS NO EVIDENCE ON RECORD TO JUSTIFY SAID CONCLUSION OF FACTS; AND
"III
RESPONDENT CIR ERRED IN AWARDING INDISCRIMINATELY ONE STEP SALARY ADJUSTMENT TO ALL SUPERVISORS IN DISREGARD OF THE MERIT SYSTEM AND AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS."cralaw virtua1aw library
A close scrutiny of this case leads this Court to believe that there is no necessity to go into the merits of the appeal. As previously mentioned, respondent GSISSU filed a Motion to Dismiss Petition on the ground that the Court of Industrial Relations Order, dated April 29, 1970, had already become final and executory, the GSIS Motion for Reconsideration of the same having been filed out of time. Although said Motion to Dismiss was denied in the Minute Resolution of this Court dated July 17, 1970, said denial did not delve into the merits of the Motion. And while the grounds cited in the Motion to Dismiss are not reiterated in respondent's Brief, we are taking cognizance of the same in new of the legal implications.
Section 17-A of the Rules of the Industrial Court, in force during the material dates of this case, provides as follows:jgc:chanrobles.com.ph
"Sec. 17-A.	Time of Filing Motion for Reconsideration in Certified Cases — The aggrieved party may file a motion for reconsideration in 6 copies duly verified together with the supporting argument within a period of four (4) days without extension from receipt of decision or order together with proof of service of 1 copy thereof on the adverse party."cralaw virtua1aw library
In a leading case, it has 'been held that the 4-day period within which to file a motion for reconsideration is jurisdictional and mandatory and failure to comply therewith is fatal. 2
As previously mentioned, copy of the Order of April 29, 1970 was received by a clerk of the office of the Government Corporate Counsel on April 30, 1970. So, petitioner had until May 4, 1970 within which to file the necessary Motion for Reconsideration. In its Comment to the Motion to Dismiss filed by respondent GSISSU, Atty. Lorenzo Mosqueda, the lawyer assigned to the case, stated that May 1, 1970 was a holiday and May 3, 1970 was a Sunday. From April 28 to 29 and May 2, 1970, he was at Baguio City in connection with the hearing of CIR Case Nos. 67-IPA (3 to 9 and 11) (Annex "A", Comment). On May 4, 1970, he was absent due to second degree burns on his left leg and ankle (Annex "B", Comment). It was only on May 5, 1970 that he learned personally of the adverse Order against petitioner, on which date he filed the Motion for Reconsideration.
In our opinion, the reasons advanced by Atty. Lorenzo Mosqueda, Assistant Government Corporate Counsel and counsel for petitioner, for his admitted failure to file the Motion for Reconsideration on time are not constitutive of excusable negligence. Thus, in the case of NWSA v. MWSA Supervisors Union, supra, the failure of the lawyer to file the Motion for Reconsideration on time due to illness of his clerk was not considered excusable negligence. This Court held that considering the matters being handled by the Office of the Corporate Counsel, which involves public funds, one cannot but demand a more exacting sense of responsibility from those concerned. Adequate measures should have been taken by that office so that Court processes may be promptly and properly attended to even on non-working days and even in the absence of the head of office or the attorney assigned to the case.
Besides, it is to be noted that the main errors assigned are identical to those in G.R. No. L-32397 and our resolution in the latter case will, therefore just as well.
As regards G.R. No. L-32397, the GSIS interposed the following Assignments of Error:chanrob1es virtual 1aw library
RESPONDENT CIR COMMITTED A GRAVE ABUSE OF DISCRETION TANTAMOUNT TO LACK OF JURISDICTION WHEN IT ISSUED THE ORDER OF JUNE 10, 1970 AND CONFIRMED BY THE COURT EN BANC IN A RESOLUTION DATED JUNE 30, 1970 HOLDING THAT YOUR PETITIONER IS FINANCIALLY CAPABLE TO MEET THE ONE STEP SALARY ADJUSTMENT OF THE RANK AND FILE EMPLOYEES OF THE SYSTEM FROM PAY CLASSES 1 to 6.
RESPONDENT ERRED IN AWARDING INDISCRIMINATELY ONE STEP SALARY ADJUSTMENT TO ALL RANK AND FILE EMPLOYEES OF THE SYSTEM FROM PAY CLASSES 1 TO 6 IN DISREGARD OF THE MERIT SYSTEM AND AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS."cralaw virtua1aw library
We affirm the Orders of respondent Court.
Petitioner's claim that the Court of Industrial Relations erred in finding the GSIS financially capable in meeting the economic demand for a one (1) rate increase in salary to all employees belonging to pay Classes 1 — 6, for not being supported by evidence, is without merit.chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
Respondent Court's conclusion was based on a Consolidated Statement of Financial Condition and Results of Operation of the GSIS as of June 30, 1969 as testified to by Mr. Julian Gonzalvo, Assistant General Manager of the System for Accounting since 1962. Mr. Gonzalvo translated to the Court the Projected Statement of Income and Expenses of GSIS for the fiscal year July 1, 1969 to June 30, 1970, which he prepared, showing the favorable financial position of GSIS. He also testified on a statement prepared under his direction indicating the capacity of the System to meet the claim for salary adjustment in the amount of P4,049,134.00; that by June 30, 1970, the System was expected to realize a net income of P49,995,000.00 available for dividends, bonuses, contingencies and taxes, and that salary adjustments may be charged proportionally to the three basic funds of the system, viz., life insurance fund, retirement fund and property insurance fund and property insurance fund. 3
Petitioner's contention that the finding of financial capability of GSIS to pay the salary increases cannot be based merely on a Statement of Income and Expenses but should consider such other factors as the impact of economic policies of the Government, the requirements of the future, the magnitude of the commitments to pay dividends, the difficulties of collecting some commercial and industrial loans, and a big over-draft, fails when we consider that the GSIS had, in fact, already ordered payment of the increases, besides the fact that no evidence to support such factors were presented in Court. Moreover, it has been held that as long as there is evidence to support a Decision of the Court of Industrial Relations, such Decision may not be revoked or reversed just because it is not based on overwhelming or preponderance of evidence. 4
In respect of the allegation that respondent Court erred in awarding indiscriminately a one-step salary adjustment to all rank and file employees (Pay Classes 1 to 6) and supervisory employees (Pay Classes 7 to 13) in disregard of the merit system, suffice it to state that the merit system is not in point. What respondent Court sought to correct was the discriminatory effect of the act of petitioner GSIS in granting salary increases to a few and not to members of other Unions which had no collective bargaining agreement with it. Besides, the only condition imposed on the payment of increases as set forth in the Memorandum of the GSIS General Manager dated July 22, 1970, 5 was that those who were to be given salary adjustments were the ones "not receiving the maximum of their respective Pay Classes."cralaw virtua1aw library
WHEREFORE, 1) in G.R. No. L-32018, the petition is dismissed and the Order of the Court of Industrial Relations of April 29, 1970 in IPA Case No. 87(8) is hereby declared final and executory. No costs.
2)	In G.R. No. L-32397, we hereby affirmed the Order of the Court of Industrial Relations of June 10, 1970, in IPA Case No. 87(9), No costs.
Makasiar, Fernandez, Guerrero and De Castro, JJ., concur.
Separate Opinions
MOTION FOR RECONSIDERATION; DELAY; EXCUSABLE NEGLIGENCE. — When three of the four days allotted by the industrial court's rules for the filing of a motion for reconsideration is certified cases were non-working days and nevertheless petitioner's counsel-in-charge was furthermore occupied with the hearing of another case in Baguio and had fallen sick besides on the only working day of the four-day period, the one-day delay in the filing of petitioner's motion for reconsideration may certainly be deemed excusable. The real purpose behind the limitation of the period of appeal is to forestall or avoid an unreasonable delay in the administration of justice and to put an end to controversies. Where no element of intent to delay the administration of justice could be attributed to movant, a one-day does not justify the denial of a motion for reconsideration.
I concur in the result in that the Court's judgment in effect sustain both questioned orders of the Court of Industrial Relations of April 29, 1970 and June 10, 1970 in Cases L-32018 and L-32397, respectively, whereby petitioner GSIS was ordered by respondent court to cease and desist from discriminating against the members of respondents unions and its other employees in the granting of salary readjustments and increases.
I register, however, my dissent from the ruling in the main opinion in Case L-32018 that the one-day delay in petitioner's filing of its Motion for Reconsideration of the questioned Order of April 29, 1970 was "not constitutive of excusable negligence" and therefore fatal and rendered the questioned order "final and executory."
As stated in the main opinion and by petitioner in its comments, copy of the questioned Order was served on its counsel's receiving clerk in the late afternoon of April 30, 1970. So it had until the 4th day, May 4, 1970, within which to file its motion for reconsideration. The lawyer in charge of the case, Atty. Lorenzo Mosqueda of the office of the Government Corporate Counsel, was in Baguio City on April 28 to 29 as well as on May 2, 1970 in connection with another case involving the Philippine National Railways. May 1, 1970 was Labor Day (an official holiday) and May 3, 1970 was a Sunday. On the following day, Monday, May 4, 1970, he was absent due to second degree burns on his left leg and ankle, duly attested by his physician's sworn certificate. It was only on the fifth day, then, that he learned personally of the adverse Order and lost no time in filing on the same day the motion for reconsideration.
Under such special circumstances when three of the four days allotted by the industrial court's rules for the filing of a motion for reconsideration in certified cases were non-working days and nevertheless petitioner's counsel-in-charge was furthermore occupied with the hearing of another case in Baguio and had fallen sick besides on the only working day of the four-day period (Monday, May 4th), the one-day delay in the filing of petitioner's motion for reconsideration may certainly be deemed excusable.
The Court so ruled in its Resolution of July 17, 1970 when in acting upon respondent's motion to dismiss the petition at bar on the ground of finality of the questioned order and alleged consequent loss of this Court's jurisdiction to consider the appeal and petitioner's explanation and prayer that "under the circumstances and in justice and fairness to petitioner" its motion "be considered filed within the reglementary period," the Court denied without qualification the motion to dismiss and maintained its Resolution of June 18, 1970 giving due course to the petition and required respondent to answer the same. As stated in the main opinion (at page 6), respondent union no longer raised the question in its brief and therefore the same should have already been considered foreclosed and settled by the Court's resolutions of June 18, 1970 and July 17, 1970.
As stressed in PBM Employees Organization v. PBM Co., Inc. 1 considering the special circumstances in the case at bar, mutatis mutandis, the industrial court's 4-day rule should be deemed "unreasonable" and violative of due process in its application, whether the movant for reconsideration be the employer or the employee.
Similarly, in De las Alas v. Court of Appeals 2 , the Court stressed that "a one-day delay does not justify dismissal of the appeal under the circumstances obtaining in this case. The real purpose behind the limitation of the period of appeal is to forestall or avoid an unreasonable delay in the administration of justice and to put an end to controversies (Dy Chay v. Crossfield, 38 Phil. 521-526)." No element of intent to delay the administration of justice could be attributed to petitioner or its counsel in the case at bar.chanrobles law library : red
I hold, therefore, as stressed in the cited case of De las Alas that "litigations should, as much as possible, be decided on their merits and not on technicality." 3 At any rate, even if the industrial court's unorthodox 4-day rule or filing motions for reconsideration were deemed jurisdictional and mandatory (so that failure to comply therewith would result in the fatal loss of the right of appeal), this Court has the power to grant relief from an excusable failure to comply with the rule, as it did in this case per its above-cited Resolution of July 17, 1970 denying respondent's motion to dismiss the petition. As reiterated in the PBM case, supra, the Supreme Court has the inherent power to "suspend its own rules or to except a particular case from its operation, whenever the purposes of justice require." 4
Since the main errors assigned in the two cases under review are identical and have been found to be without merit, with which finding I concur, my vote in Case L-32018, therefore, is to affirm on the merits (and not to dismiss the appeal for the excusable one-day delay in the filing of the motion for reconsideration) the questioned Order of April 29, 1970 for the same reasons and considerations stated for affirming the other questioned Order of June 10, 1970 in Case L-32397.
1.	Exhibit "A", p. 5, Original Records.
2.	NAWASA v. NWSA Supervisors Union, 58 SCRA 232 (1974).
3.	pp. 5-7 of Order of June 10, 1970 on pp. 42-44 of Rollo.
4.	Manila Metal Caps and Tins Mfg. Co. v. CIR, 8 SCRA 552 (1963).
5.	G.R. No. L-32397, Rollo, p. 105.
1.	51 SCRA 189, 213, per Makasiar, J (1973).
2.	83 SCRA 200, 215 (May 16, 1978), per Makasiar, J.
3.	Citing Gregorio v. Court of Appeals, 73 SCRA 120, 126, wherein we held that." . . Dismissal of appeals purely on technical grounds is frowned upon where the policy of the courts is to encourage hearings of appeals on their merits. The rules of procedure ought not be applied in a very rigid, technical sense; rules of procedure are used only to help secure, not override, substantial justice. If a technical and rigid enforcement of the rules is made, their aim would be defeated."cralaw virtua1aw library
4.	51 SCRA at page 215.
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Even as young teenager, Amy Nance Snow knew exactly what she wanted to do with her life.
"As a freshman (in high school), I knew I wanted to work with kids and families involved in the court system," Snow said.
While attending Western Hills High School, Snow volunteered at Simon House and the Sunshine Center. The summer after graduating in 1996, she helped start the summer feeding program through Second Street School and served lunch to kids.
"I fell in love with that," she said.
That same summer she worked with Pat and Randy Bacon to help them get The Kings Center started.
"That was an invaluable experience," she said. "That solidified that I wanted to work with kids and families."
That fall, she enrolled in classes at Eastern Kentucky University, but returned home every chance she got to work at The Kings Center.
After graduating from EKU with a degree in corrections and juvenile services, she started working at Presbyterian Child Welfare Agency in Richmond. It was a private agency that worked for the foster care program.
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She worked in foster care for five years as a case manager, checking on children placed in foster families.
In June of 2003, she moved to North Carolina and worked for the North Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice as a probation officer.
In 2006, she moved back to Frankfort and went to work for Franklin County Schools. She started as a freshman transition monitor.
"Eventually, I knew every kid in the school," Snow said.
In 2008, she became the youth service center coordinator.
"Every job I've had, I didn't want to leave," she said. "I really enjoyed it. I thought I would retire from that position.
In the position, Snow started several programs including, Girls Rock, Guys Group, Youth Coalition, Alateen — for students whose parents have addiction problems — and more.
Since 2015, Snow has served in her current position as the district's dropout prevention coordinator.
Snow has a five-year-old daughter Aaliyah Simpson. She is married to Daniel Snow, who has a daughter Jaida Snow, 10, and together they are expecting a daughter who is due in November.
FRANK.: How did working in the foster care system help prepare you for what you do today?
Snow: It really gave me a love for people. Just meeting all different kinds of families. It made me comfortable being around people who are different from me.
Having the foundation of working with the kids in foster care, really prepared me for working in the school system. I've worked with kids with different behavior issues, loss issues and chaotic family situations.
FRANK.: What does your role as a drop out coordinator for the school system entail?
Snow: I look at the needs and create programs to fill the needs. We had a program facilitated for the past year for kids involved in the court system. This summer, through Capital Motor Home trailer park, we were able to do a tutoring program. The kids came and they worked on reading and math. That's a high, at risk area for kids to be exposed to drug and alcohol and for not completing school. I monitor the students throughout the school year.
The other part of my job is community education with the seniors in high school. I facilitate programs through the Kentucky Department of Education. One we started two years ago, was a life skills workshop. On the day we had the program, seniors chose a workshop to do. They could learn to change a tire, how to rent an apartment, deal with stress, online banking, how to sew, and more. People in the community come in and taught the workshops.
A second program, this is the first year, is called Truth and Consequences. It's operated through Franklin County Extension Office. It's a drug prevention program for eighth graders from all of the schools, independent and private. It will be Oct. 25 at Bondurant Middle School. Students will attend two or three 30 minute workshops.
They'll get a scenario involving drugs or alcohol, for example a drunk driving crash.
FRANK.: Are you still involved at The Kings Center?
Snow: I attended a meeting there this summer. We talked about engaging the teenagers. One man said if we had a music studio, kids would come. I hear that with kids I meet with in high school.
Kids like to make music. The Kings Center joined with the Hands Healing HeArts program. They found a music artist in California to work with the kids. Over the summer, I met with Beth Bacon, director of The Kings Center, and a contact at Kentucky State University and talked about how we could get money to have a music studio at the center.
I could use it in the school system as a motivator. If a kid were to attend school all week, they may earn two hours in the studio.
We'll see how pilot project goes, Dr. Elliott Gann out of California, will be the guest artist. He will be here Oct. 8 through Nov. 4. They'll have it in Frankfort High School.
I feel like I have come full circle, I feel like a silent partner with The Kings Center.
FRANK.: What do you personally get out of the work you do?
Snow: It's definitely made me who I am. It's so rewarding to see kids who I worked with years ago and to still have relationships with them. To see kids overcome challenges that they had, and be able to graduate high school and give back to the community.
It makes me feel like a proud mama. My husband and I joke that I have a lot of kids. They call me at night and about the most random things. It's special to have your own children, but to have a connection with kids who aren't biologically your own is really special.
FRANK.: What do you like to do in your free time?
Snow: My goal is to become a lake person. I want to buy a boat. We visited three different lakes this summer.
FRANK.: What are your hopes for the future of the school system?
Snow: We are focused on expanding services, growth and to be able to meet the needs of our kids. I'm excited to see the programs that we could develop. Helping kids become work-ready through the tech center, and after and before school programs.
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"Welcome to 3-Minute-Bible-Study on Historical References to Jesus.
The primary historical documents on Jesus Christ are in the New Testament. But references to Christ are also found in ancient writings from unbelievers. From the historical context of the Roman Empire, Greek culture, and the Jewish people, we will examine external references to Christ, beginning with Rome.
Tacitus was a Roman senator and historian born about AD 56. In his account of Nero's rule and his persecution of Christians, Tacitus gives the following background: "Christus, from whom the name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of one of our procurators, Pontius Pilate." This gives us Roman reference to Christ, to his execution, and to same political time frame as recorded in Luke 3:1.
Jewish: the works of Josephus, the first century Jewish historian, include two references to Jesus. One, in relation to his death, and a second, in relation to his brother James. The consensus of scholarship is that while the second text is original, the first text represents the combination of an original statement from Josephus, plus some favorable embellishments added by a later hand. The excerpt shown here represents not those later embellishments, but a minimal part of the core recognized as being from Josephus, and records Jesus being condemned to the cross under Pilate. Josephus' second reference concerns the stoning of James, the brother of Jesus who is called Christ; thus providing external first century references to both Jesus, and his brother James (compare Gal. 1:19).
We've seen historical references from Roman, Greek, and Jewish writers. But as noted earlier, the primary documents on Jesus are found in the New Testament itself, whose very origin and existence would be inexplicable had Jesus never existed. The New Testament texts include accounts about and testimony from witnesses who knew, heard, and saw Jesus.
And for those who inclined to view the new Testament as later generation legends, we'll close with a text that is both early and dateable. First Corinthians is a letter from Paul, dates to about AD 55. In chapter 15 on the resurrection, Paul is reminding them of what he taught in person, back when he came to Corinth, around AD 50. This is dateable by the proconsulship of Gallio (see 3 Minute Bible Study on archaeology for further info). Now AD 50 brings us within about twenty years of Christ's death, burial, and resurrection. Note also that in chapter 15, Paul gives a witness list with known people, still living, who had seen Jesus. Not some later generation – this is a dateable list with living witnesses that knew and saw Jesus.
From the biblical text foremost, and additionally from history provided by unbelievers, we can document the historicity of Jesus. But Jesus of Nazareth did more than exist in history. He also changed history. The single most influential person in the history of the world was not a myth. He was, and is, Christ Jesus of Nazareth.


Kim Kardashian wears too many dresses in a week not to occasionally suffer a wardrobe malfunction.
The 31-year-old reality star looked fantastic in her green velvet wrap dress from the front, but from behind it was unfastened and quite literally busting at the seams.
famous daughter to walk the red carpet – face front, of course.
Kim's wardrobe malfunction was reminiscent of Modern Family star Sofia Vergara's recent Emmy's disaster, when she also split her stunning green gown.
make-up and a pair of gold stiletto heels.
'So excited for my @DrinkMidori Makeover Parlour event tonight! #Midorimakeover,' Kim tweeted to her 16.2 million followers.
asking her fans to pick Kim's manicure makeover.
'Back in LA for a few hours! Feels good to be home, even for this short time!' she wrote after landing at LAX.
Only yesterday, Kim was strutting around Miami beach with her sister Kourtney in her usual thick make-up.
While her older sibling – who recently gave birth to her second child Penelope – rocked a white T-shirt and shorts, Kim opted for something more attention grabbing, sporting a plunging white swimsuit and a gold belt.
Today, Kim was more covered up, leaving the airport terminal in a leather top and black maxi skirt, with two thigh-high splits.
Kim's current boyfriend Kanye West appeared on the NYC version of the show while she was happily married to estranged husband Kris Humphries, who was today attending a childrens' charity event in New York.
In fact the relationship seems to be going from strength to strength with Kanye even buying Kim a cute white Persian kitten named Mercy, after his most recent album.
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HILBORN RECOMMENDS...Gift Planning in Canada
publication date: Jul 3, 2013
author/source: Laura West
The elderly donor and gift planning – Laura West
The following article is excerpted for Hilborn Charity eNEWS readers from the June, 2013 issue of Gift Planning in Canada.
The Canadian population is aging and this trend is expected to continue for the next several decades. Senior members of the population can often have specific physical or mental challenges that make them potentially vulnerable to others. As a result, care must be taken when dealing with elderly and potentially vulnerable donors, during the gift planning process.
Elderly donors may make gifts to charities either during their lifetimes or upon their deaths through the provisions of their wills. Such gifts can be challenged following the donor's death or during the donor's lifetime by disappointed beneficiaries or executors of the donor's estate, attorneys or guardians acting for the benefit of an incapable donor, or other interested parties. As a result, gift planners need to be aware of certain legal issues that can arise when dealing with the elderly donor population in order to enable them to take proactive steps to protect the charitable gifts made by such donors from challenge.
The question of capacity
For example, in order for either a testamentary charitable gift or an inter vivos charitable gift to be valid at law, the donor must have the requisite legal capacity to make the gift. It is important to remember that there is no one legal test for capacity – someone may have the legal capacity to make one type of decision but not others. In addition, capacity can fluctuate, in that a person can have capacity at one point in time to make a specific type of decision and not at another point in time.
Legal issues relating to property and decision-making can differ from province to province, but generally, for the purposes of the common law, a person has the capacity to make an inter vivos gift - i.e., a gift during lifetime - if the donor knows and appreciates the nature and consequences of the transaction he or she is carrying out. In certain circumstances, courts have required a testamentary capacity standard for donors making certain types of inter vivos gifts – particularly substantial inter vivos gifts that represent a significant portion of a donor's estate. Again, generally for the purposes of the common law, a person has testamentary capacity (i.e., the capacity to make a will) when the person understands the nature and effect of a will and the nature and extent of his or her property, is aware of the claims of those who might be expected to share in his or her estate and is under no disorder of the mind or delusions that affect his or her testamentary decisions.
Proactive assessment an option
Some of the circumstances that should alert gift planners to the idea that capacity may be an issue include donors with intellectual impairments or memory problems or donors who are unable to identify assets or family members or who are relying too heavily on others. The existence of any of these circumstances will not necessarily be determinative but will likely warrant closer attention being paid to issues of capacity. If, after careful scrutiny, there is still uncertainty with respect to whether a potential donor has the capacity to make the gift in question, then before the gift is made, consideration should be given as to whether the capacity of the donor should be confirmed by means of a capacity assessment obtained from a trained professional. Other proactive steps gift planners can take in such circumstances include encouraging donors to seek independent legal and professional advice, ensuring detailed notes are kept of discussions with donors, and documenting the terms and conditions of gifts made by donors in written agreements.
Gifts made by elderly donors can also give rise to challenges based on claims of undue influence. Generally, undue influence will be found when it can be shown that a gift was made because of undue pressure on the free will of the donor such that the gift was one that the donor did not truly intend or would not have made but for the pressure. Gift planners should be on the lookout for donors who appear to be overly susceptible or reliant on others, who have recently suffered emotional or physical upheaval and/or whose personal circumstances give rise to reasonable suspicions of undue influence. Proactive steps, such as the ones described above for donors with capacity issues, can also be undertaken by gift planners in such circumstances.
Laura E. West: B.A., J.D. is a partner with Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP engaged in a general practice in the areas of estates, trusts, charity and not-for-profit law. She has taught wills and estate planning at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, as an adjunct professor, and she also lectures and writes frequently on estate planning and charity law issues. Contact her at lwest@fasken.com.
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Q: Including hash in rspec facts For a Puppet RSpec test, I would like to define a fact as
let (:facts) {{
  :os => { 'name' => 'CentOS' }
}}

However, RSpec does not seem to recognize os as hash when running Puppet 3.7.4.  The validate_hash($::os) function of stdlib does not return an error and a test of the variable within the manifest of
if $::os == undef {
   fail("Fact os is undefined")
}

suggests that os is indeed defined.
Would you please provide guidance on how to set a hash value for a fact to be used in a Puppet RSpect test?  Thanks in advance ...

A: { 'name', 'CentOS' } is not a valid hash. Did you mean :os => { 'name' => 'CentOS' }?

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SanDisk Increases Industrial Flash Card Speeds to 20 MB/s
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SanDisk 4GB and 8GB compact flash cards rated for industrial use were announced today. The read/write performance clocks out at an estimated 20 megabytes per second. No price was announced, but rest assured they will not be affordable. SanDisk also announced NAND flash technology will reach 8GB for industrial grades and 16GB for consumers.
See press release below.
SanDisk Introduces 4 and 8 Gigabyte Industrial CF Cards and 8 and 16GB Industrial PC Cards
Providing a reliable storage alternative to hard drives, SanDisk Corporation today announced significantly higher capacities and faster read/write times for its industrial product line including Industrial Grade and Standard Grade Flash ATA cards. These new cards now provide memory options of as much as 16 gigabytes (GB) for PC Cards and up to 8GB for CompactFlash cards. The announcement was made at Electronica 2004, where SanDisk is exhibiting in Hall A4, Stand 243 of the New Munich Trade Fair Center.
The new cards double the current maximum flash storage capacities of these form factors. The highest capacities for industrial CF cards, which are the more popular Type I form factors, are increased from 2GB to 4GB (industrial grade) and from 4GB to 8GB (standard grade). Likewise, the PC Cards, which are Type II form factors and are based on state-of-the-art 90nm (nanometer) NAND flash technology, will go from 4GB to 8GB for industrial grade and from 8GB to 16GB for standard grade. The cards are expected to be available starting in December. Pricing is being determined and will vary from region to region.
The CompactFlash card, invented by SanDisk, weighs just half an ounce and is the size of a matchbook. With an industry-standard ATA compatible 50-pin cartridge, it can be easily designed into virtually any application, providing reliable, low-power storage. The ATA PC Cards provide interoperability across virtually all platforms and are ideal for devices that require high capacity, low-power storage solutions. For industrial grade cards of 256MB and up, read/write performance clocks out at a speedy 20 megabytes per second.
"These higher capacity points and performance of the CF and PC cards will enable a wave of new applications driven by lower price points," said Norm Frentz, SanDisk's product marketing manager for industrial products.
"Manufacturers will be able to replace hard drives and design in solid-state flash solutions that are durable and reliable. These new specifications are industry-leading in terms of capacity and sequential file performance," he said. "Among companies that can benefit from converting to flash memory ATA solutions are those in the networking and telecom, medical, military, automotive and factory automation channels," said Frentz.
The industrial grade CF and PC cards offer extended temperature ranges, extreme endurance, an MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures) of 3 million hours, extended shock and vibration resistance, complete serialization and traceability, and a seven-year warranty. The standard grade cards offer a competitively priced product with high endurance and 1 million hours of MTBF.
All SanDisk industrial ATA products provide superior random access times for booting, firmware that can be upgraded in the field, industry-leading write abort brown-out handling, and exceptional reliability and endurance. SanDisk's statistically based quality control system offers 100 percent testing of all industrial products.
SanDisk, the world's largest supplier of flash memory data storage card products, designs, manufactures and markets industry-standard, solid-state data, digital imaging and audio storage products using its patented, high density flash memory and controller technology. SanDisk is based in Sunnyvale, CA.
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From volunteering at a local Department of Veterans Affairs medical center, to giving veterans free rides to their medical appointments in a Transportation Network van, to assisting indigent or homeless veterans —and everything in between—DAV volunteers across the country are committed to serving our ill and injured heroes. In 2018 alone, DAV volunteers donated more than 1.4 million hours of their time. DAV wants to recognize them for their efforts.
Each year, the prestigious George H. Seal Memorial Trophy honors one DAV and Auxiliary member who have gone above and beyond in their service through the Department of Veterans Affairs Voluntary Service (VAVS) Program. Hours must be credited through DAV or DAV Auxiliary in order to be considered for this award.
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