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Islamic Expo NOW ON!
T he Kuraby State Special School hall has been transformed into a supermarket of Islamic books, clothes, DVDs and artwork taking up virtually every available space in the large hall.
The Expo started of yesterday with steady support from the Brisbane public and continues today (Sunday) until 5pm.
The goods were transported from the IBC shop in Melbourne for Queenslanders to stock up on a range of items in time for Ramadan and Eid.
So there's still time today to check out the impressive collection before they head back home to Victoria.
Books and clothes to cater for all needs
Accessories to suit all tastes
Amaan Meman surveys part of the large collection of books and games for children of all ages
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Islamic Education Website
A newly developed and developing website aims to make accessible the basic teachings and principles of Islam.
The idea that led to the development of this website has come from the Adult Educational Series, spearheaded by a group of Ulema from Azaadville, South Africa.
http://www.learndeen.org.za
The Sultans of Swing
Qu'ran Competition in full swing
There are over 70 entrants from local madressahs, schools and private institutions for today's (Sunday) ICQ Qu'ran Competition .
The programme starts at 9am and will conclude around 1pm.
Mustafaa the Maestro!
'Musty's' golden moment
Rawlins Taekwondo QLD took a team of four to Malaysia and came home with 1 gold and 1 bronze.
It was a hard tournament with 800 competitors from more then 20 countries.
Our gold medal winner was where Mustafaa Olomi (pictured left) who had 9 fights and came out top in each one.
For Mustafaa it was a very hard day starting his first fight at 10.30am and ending with his last fight at 11.30pm.
But the hardest part was when he had to fight his quarter final, semi final and final all in a row with only a minute's break in between.
"He has made his club and country proud and fought the best he could to beat fighters from Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Korea and Australia," his proud dad and trainer, Haris Olomi told CCN.
This is Mustafaa's third International gold medal having also won in the Singaporean and Korean opens last year.
The second medalist was Jahan Olomi. This was her first international fight and she did very well to win a bronze.
Jacob and Robert missed out on a medal by one fight and hope to make amends in this weekend's Queensland selections.
Rawlins Taekwondo has been at all of the major tournaments this year and bagged more then 80 gold medal in the process.
Muslim Match Making Makes Its Mark
By Abdul Rahman Keri
Braving the unknown yet keen on finding a life partner, single Muslims attended �Speed Intros for Muslims�, a matchmaking-style event held at the Siebel Citygate, Brisbane.
Twenty-seven enthusiasts participated in the matchmaking event, each given five minutes to interview prospective spouses.
Event organiser, Julu Latif said there is a need in the community to find partners for single Muslims because the opportunity to meet is difficult.
Matchmaking in the community isn�t a new trend, traditionally an ad hoc referral by a mutual friend and a tendency for couples to wed within similar ethnic backgrounds.
However this multicultural event provided another option for single Muslims looking for marriage partners.
For some participants, five minutes wasn�t enough time to know if a suitor was appropriate. Feedback from the event was overwhelmingly positive, with some participants expressing interest in coming back to any future events.
Mrs. Latif suggested she may host the event again at a later date.
Tabbaa inspired to join the club
MAKING inroads with uniting the Islamic and Christian community earned Abdallah Tabbaa (pictured left) a Pride of Australia Medal.
Mr Tabbaa helped form the new Australian National Sports Club at Parry Park, Lakemba, to get youths off the streets and interested in sport.
The project manager of the complex said it would open soon and house more sports including netball, badminton and boxing.
�Sport is the only way,� Mr Tabbaa, of Greystanes, said.
�You can see any game you want - do you see any nationality missing?�
�We�re trying to bring these kids together and to form teams and do something constructive other than forming gangs and being destructive.�
He believes he has seen more community harmony compared with 13 years ago when he raised the idea for a new sports complex.
�Once upon a time it used to be predominantly Muslim (fighting against each other),� he said.
�Now we�ve got Muslims and Christians working together.�
Bankstown State Labor MP Tony Stewart, who has helped Mr Tabbaa fund part of the complex, nominated him for the Pride of Australia medal.
�Abdallah has been a true community-spirited person for many years,� Mr Stewart said.
�He�s been instrumental in getting this facility in place to support youth needs particularly in that area of Canterbury-Bankstown.�
SISTERS: The Magazine for Muslim Women
from the pages of www.sisters-magazine.com
"The editor of SISTERS is Na'ima B. Robert, author of From My Sisters' Lips (www.nbrobert.com). The SISTERS team is an eclectic group of writers, journalists, artists and readers who are based all over the world, from London to Khartoum, from New York to Johannesburg. We are all committed to filling our magazine with uplifting, inspiring and enlightening material to help you become the best Muslimah you can be, from the inside out.
SISTERS covers a range of subjects in the areas of Inspiration, Self, Family, Community, World, Homes, Looks, Tastes and a range of reader offers and competitions. Our magazine's ethos is rooted in the Qur'an and Sunnah, according to the understanding of the Pious Predecessors, and our inspiration is Islam as a beautiful and richly rewarding way of life.
SISTERS began as a digital publication in March 2007 and was received with much acclaim and enthusiasm. SISTERS is now available in print and online, and will be published four times a year initially. As a subscriber and online shopper, you can enjoy the benefits of having the magazine delivered direct to your home or office. Just click on the relevant category on the left to make your purchase!"
The niqab, fact v fiction
How much do you really know about the niqab? An insider guide to common misconceptions
Fatima Barkatulla: TimesOnline
1.The niqab is a symbol of female subjugation.
None of the niqab-wearing women who I know, wear it because they have been forced to. They see it as an act of devotion to their Creator: the culmination of a spiritual journey. In fact most of them are women who were born and brought up in the UK; many are White or Afro-Caribbean Muslim converts to Islam who have chosen to observe it. The hijab, niqab and abaya are outer garments and are worn only when outdoors or in the presence of men who are not close relatives and so, contrary to popular belief, underneath their robes, in family and female-only settings Muslim women are often very fashion conscious and outgoing. They dress in everyday clothing; they get their hair done, go on holiday and even buy lingerie!
2. Women who wear the niqab cannot possibly contribute to society
People are surprised to hear that niqab-wearers come from varied vocational backgrounds. They include doctors, teachers, dentists, authors, social workers, university graduates, lecturers and more. They usually prefer to work in a female environment and so would not wear the face-veil all the time. Other women say that wearing the niqab actually makes them feel more comfortable when they are working with men. It is ironic that the very women who are the subject of debate are far from being a burden on society: they don�t get drunk and disorderly, don�t smoke and are likely to be very good citizens. Many of them are full-time mothers who take pride in raising well-educated children who will be an asset to British society.
3. The niqab isn�t in the Qur�an
The Qur�anic worldview presents a complete system of living, which permeates the daily lives of observant Muslims. This includes everything from rituals of personal hygiene, advice on neighbourly behaviour and animal rights to regulations for dress. Some women see the niqab as a religious obligation, others, as an act of worship following in the footsteps of notable Muslim women of the past. Numerous verses in the Qur�an contain directives for Muslim women�s dress, amongst them:
�O Prophet! Tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the Believers to draw their outer garments all over their bodies. That will be better, so that they may be known and so as not to be annoyed, and God is Ever-forgiving, Most Merciful.� (33:59)
The Qur�an was interpreted by the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) and his disciples and their teachings form the basis of Islamic law. There are two orthodox schools of thought with regards to the interpretation of this verse. One orthodox interpretation is that it means covering the whole body including the face. The other school of thought is that, though not obligatory, covering the face is a virtue.
4. Wearing the niqab implies that all men are predatory
Just as locking our doors at night doesn�t imply that all members of society are burglars, wearing the niqab doesn�t imply that all men are predatory.
The Islamic worldview recognises that attraction between men and women exists and, if left unharnessed, has the potential to break down the moral fabric of society. It also acknowledges the physiological and physical differences between men and women and therefore Islamic legislation for dress and behaviour reflect these differences and aid adherents to avoid situations that could lead to extra-marital sexual relations. Hence both men and women have been commanded to lower their gazes and given directives on dress.
5. The niqab poses a security risk at banks and airports
By simply going to the side and showing their faces and ID to female members of staff, Muslim women who wear the niqab, have been, for decades, passing through airport security in major airports all over the world without cause for security concern. The same sort of arrangement can be made for any situation where ID needs to be checked.
6.Niqab wearers can�t possibly be teachers.
There are many highly qualified and experienced Muslim teachers. A Muslim teacher, who wears the niqab, would not need to do so if men were not present, therefore many female Muslim teachers choose to teach women or children and uncover their faces whilst teaching.
7. Banning the niqab will free those Muslim women who are coerced into wearing it.
Banning the face-veil would be totally counter-productive: it would cause many Muslim women to feel targeted and persecuted and is likely to cause many talented women to withdraw from society. The majority of niqab-wearing women in Europe, wear it out of personal choice, so if, for the sake of a suspected minority, the niqab was to be banned, this would be clear discrimination against the majority. If we want to empower women from any community who are oppressed or abused, effective public services where such abuse can be reported need to be made more available and accessible to the women involved.
Hindus, Muslims willing to tie the knot outside their religions
Sydney, July 20 : An increasing number of Hindus and Muslims are willing to exchange wedding vows with people of other faiths, according to researchers.
A Monash University research has shown that 10 per cent of Hindus have married out of their faith, along with 8 per cent of Muslim men and 6 per cent of Muslim women.
However, the highest rates of intermarriage have been found among Christians.
About 60 per cent of Presbyterian men and women had married someone outside their faith, followed by more than 43 per cent of Uniting Church members, 41 per cent of Anglicans and more than 37 per cent of Catholics.
During the study, the researchers analysed 2001 and 2006 census data.
The 2006 census showed 64 per cent of Australians as Christian, but that was a drop of 7 per cent from a decade earlier.
Instead, non-Christian faiths experienced a rise, as did people identifying with no religion at all.
"It doesn't mean an absence of religion; it means the withdrawal of religion from everyday life and practices, including partnering," the Sydney Morning Herald quoted researcher Genevieve Heard as saying.
She said that smaller religious communities, especially those tied to emerging migrant groups like Muslims and Hindus, had not had as long to establish themselves as those of Christian faiths.
Source: Australian Herald
Ahmed Fahour new Gulf Finance House chief
Former National Australia Bank Ltd (NAB) executive director Ahmed Fahour (pictured left) has been appointed as the new chief executive of Middle Eastern Islamic investment bank Gulf Finance House (GFH).
Five months after leaving NAB to become interim chief executive of the federal government's Australian Business Investment Partnership (ABIP), Mr Fahour will now move to Bahrain to spearhead GFH's global expansion, the bank said in a statement.
Mr Fahour will be responsible for increasing the bank's exposure to international markets and expanding the Islamic banking system.
GFH chairman Dr Esam Janahi said the Lebanese-born Australian would be ideally suited to expanding the company's global expansion.
"As a Muslim he has an inherent appreciation of the Islamic values that underpin our work and the philosophy woven into all GFH's key initiatives," he said.
GFH has a reputation for breaking the mould in originating excellent high value investment opportunities, Mr Fahour said.
GFH observes Sharia law in its banking practice, and has a market capitalisation of $US709.2 million ($A886.9 million).
"As a Muslim he has an inherent appreciation of the Islamic values that underpin our work and the philosophy woven into all GFH's key initiatives"
It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and the bourses in Kuwait, Bahrain and Dubai.
Mr Fahour left NAB seven months after missing out on the bank's top job to Cameron Clyne last year.
He is believed to have received five offers during 2008 for top executive roles at offshore and local institutions.
As he left NAB, he accepted an offer the same day to become chief executive of ABIP, the government-backed entity that was to provide as much as $70 billion of refinancing to major commercial property projects which risked collapse as foreign and local lenders withdrew support for the sector.
Dubbed RuddBank, ABIP was to be a banking partnership between the federal government and the big four banks.
But in June the Senate voted to reject the enabling legislation for ABIP, with the Greens voicing concerns over executive remuneration.
Mr Fahour, who joined NAB from Citigroup in September 2004 as chief executive of the bank's Australian and Asia operations, changed roles within the bank last December when he became a group-wide strategic troubleshooter.
Under Mr Fahour's leadership, the Australian region delivered cash earnings growth of 15.8 per cent for fiscal 2008 and underlying profit growth of 19.3 per cent.
Largest Mosques of the World
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Muslim model Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno to be caned for drinking beer: Malaysian court
Noorazah Baharuddin, believed to be first woman in Malaysia sentenced to caning for drinking alcohol
A Singaporean Muslim model who drank beer at a nightclub in Malaysia will be caned.
A Malaysian religious court sentenced the tearful 22-year-old Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno to six strokes of the cane after she pleaded guilty to consuming alcohol, the English-language New Straits Times newspaper reported.
"The rotan is aimed at making the accused repent and serves as a lesson to Muslims. "
Pahang Sharia High Court judge Abdul Rahman Yunus
She was with her Singaporean husband in a hotel nightclub in the eastern state of Pahang last year when syariah officers raided the lounge, nabbing 20 other Muslims for drinking alcohol, which is forbidden in Islam. Her husband was let off, according to an earlier report in the Times.
She told the newspaper before the trial that �it was sheer bad luck� the lounge was raided.
"We feel the sentence is fair after going through the prosecution's argument and since the rotan (cane) is provided for in the law," Pahang Sharia High Court judge Abdul Rahman Yunus said, according to the paper.
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Non-Muslims turning to Sharia courts to resolve civil disputes
Sheikh Suhaib Hasan, of the Islamic Sharia Council, says problems such as knife crime would be resolved if Britain implemented Islamic penal codes
UK: Increasing numbers of non-Muslims are turning to Sharia courts to resolve commercial disputes and other civil matters, The Times has learnt.
The Muslim Arbitration Tribunal (MAT) said that 5 per cent of its cases involved non-Muslims who were using the courts because they were less cumbersome and more informal than the English legal system.
Freed Chedie, a spokesman for Sheikh Faiz-ul-Aqtab Siqqiqi, a barrister who set up the tribunal, said: �We put weight on oral agreements, whereas the British courts do not.�
In a case last month a non-Muslim Briton took his Muslim business partner to the tribunal to sort out a dispute over the profits in their car fleet company. �The non-Muslim claimed that there had been an oral agreement between the pair,� said Mr Chedie. �The tribunal found that because of certain things the Muslim man did, that agreement had existed. The non-Muslim was awarded �48,000.�
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Hadia Goldhawk
The African Caliphate
The Life, Works and Teaching of Shaykh Uthman dan Fodio (1754 � 1817)
Ibrahim Sulaiman
This scholarly work focuses on the establishment in 1809, in what is today Northern Nigeria, of the celebrated Sokoto caliphate, which may well have been the last complete re-establishment, anywhere in the world, of Islam in its entirety, comprising all its many and varied dimensions.
As well as giving the biography of the Shehu and a comprehensive account of the history of his movement, the book also provides an in-depth examination of his teaching and literary works.
These factors are all inextricably interwoven since, in a way scarcely equalled by any other historical figure, the Shehu�s writings sprang directly out of the exigencies and requirements of his immediate situation and were what drove his movement forward and articulated its vision.
As will be seen, his sole inspiration and source of guidance in every instance were the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of His Messenger # to such a point that he even died at exactly the same age. It is also astonishing how relevant the Shehu�s teachings are, in spite of the clear difference in both time and environment, to the situation of so many Muslims in the world today and the solution to many of the problems currently besetting Islam are clearly indicated within its pages.
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Carrot Muffin � Simply the best
2 � cups flour
1/2 tsp Bicarbonate of Soda
3 tsp cinnamon powder
Beat separately
1 � cups sugar
1 � cups oil
Fold in
2 cups grated carrot
� cup chopped pecan nuts
250 grams crushed pineapple, drained
1 Beat egg whites , add sugar and then oil and beat further
2 Add Sifted dry ingredients and beat for 30 seconds.
3 Fold in the remaining ingredients
4 Place in cup cake or muffin pans � � full
5 Bake at 180degrees for 15mins or until light brown.
125 grams butter
250 grams Philadelphia cream cheese
500 grams icing sugar
Beat well. Top Muffin when cold and decorate with a piece of Pecan. (Any remaining icing can be frozen for further use)
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"When my wife and I were first married, I would come home from the Mosque, she would bring my slippers and our cute little dog would run around barking. Now after ten years it's all different, I come home, the dog brings the slippers and my wife runs around barking."
"Why complain?" said Mula Nasruddin. "You're still getting the same service!"
Annual Quran Competition
Reverts Course
Parenting Workshop
Pre-Ramadan Islamic Expo
Unity Cup Indoor Soccer Tournament
Islamic Classes for Teenagers
AIIC Annual Fete
Mini World Cup
Fred Hollows Southern Africa Project
FAMSY QUT Lecture
Course: Road to Recovery
Al-Nisa Desert Night: Pearls & Curls
Quran Competition: Sydney
AMAL Muslim Helpline
OurWorld Hajj Travel Package
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Islamic Council of Queensland
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8 & 9 August
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Unity Cup Soccer Tournament
Queensland Muslims
Acacia Ridge Futsal Centre
Fred Hollows Foundation
Michaels Oriental Restaurant
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724 Blunder Rd. DURACK
Start of Ramadhan
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Brisbane Olympic, Cansdale Street, Yeronga
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and 87-766A
FRANCIS HICKS                           )
Cross-Respondent              )
v.                               )
NORTHWEST MARINE                        )
IRON WORKS                              )    DATE ISSUED:   01/24/1995
and                              )
SAIF CORPORATION                        )
Respondents                   )
Cross-Petitioners             )    DECISION and ORDER
Appeals of the Decision and Order of Steven E. Halpern, Administrative
Law Judge, United States Department of Labor.
Robert K. Udziela (Pozzi, Wilson, Atchison, O'Leary & Conboy), Portland,
Oregon, for claimant.
Ruth M. Cinniger, Portland, Oregon, for employer/carrier.
Before:  SMITH, DOLDER, and McGRANERY, Administrative Appeals Judges.
Claimant appeals and employer cross-appeals the Decision and Order (86-LHC-1749) of Administrative Law Judge Steven E. Halpern rendered on a claim filed
pursuant to the provisions of the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act,
as amended, 33 U.S.C. §901 et seq. (the Act).  We must affirm
the administrative law judge's findings of fact and conclusions of law if they are
supported by substantial evidence, are rational, and are in accordance with law.
33 U.S.C. §921(b)(3); O'Keeffe v. Smith, Hinchman & Grylls Associates,
Inc., 380 U.S. 359 (1965).
The facts of this case are not in dispute.  Claimant injured his back, neck,
and right arm and shoulder in a work-related incident on September 29, 1979.
Employer voluntarily paid temporary total disability benefits from September 30,
1979, through May 1, 1982.  On December 29, 1982, the parties entered into a
Section 8(i), 33 U.S.C. §908(i) (1982), settlement for $10,300, plus future
medical expenses, which the district director approved. Jt. Ex. 6.  In November
1985, claimant's treating physician noted a distinct worsening in the condition of
claimant's arm and shoulder.  Jt. Exs. 8-9.  Based on this opinion, claimant filed
a motion for modification pursuant to Section 22 of the Act, 33 U.S.C. §922,
requesting medical benefits and additional temporary total disability benefits.
Employer controverted the claim on February 12, 1986; however, on January 14, 1987,
one week prior to the hearing, employer conceded its liability for continuing
medical benefits.
The administrative law judge issued a decision based on the record evidence.
He held that: the 1984 Amendments to the Act do not apply to this case; the
settlement under Section 8(i) is not subject to modification pursuant to Section
22; claimant is not entitled to additional temporary total disability benefits; and
employer is liable for claimant's medical benefits and for an attorney's fee of
$1,078.13.  Decision and Order at 1-2.  Claimant appeals the administrative law
judge's denial of additional benefits, and employer responds, urging affirmance.
BRB No. 87-766.  In its cross-appeal, employer challenges the award of an
attorney's fee, and claimant responds, urging affirmance.  BRB No. 87-766A.
Claimant initially contends that the 1979 settlement can be modified pursuant
to Section 22 of the Act.  It is well-established, however, that a settlement in
accordance with pre-Amendment Section 8(i) is not subject to Section 22
modification. Downs v. Texas Star Shipping Co., Inc., 18 BRBS 37 (1986),
aff'd sub nom. Downs v. Director, OWCP, 803 F.2d 193, 19 BRBS 36 (CRT) (5th
Cir. 1986); Lambert v. Atlantic & Gulf Stevedores, 17 BRBS 68 (1985); see
also 33 U.S.C. §922 (1988).  Because a Section 8(i) settlement constitutes
the final disposition of the 1979 claim in this case, the administrative law judge
appropriately determined that it is not subject to modification under Section 22,
and we affirm his finding. See Lambert, 17 BRBS at 70.
Next, claimant contends he is entitled to additional temporary total
disability benefits because his continued employment aggravated the condition of
his arm and shoulder, which were initially injured in 1979.  In support of his
argument, claimant cites Director, OWCP v. General Dynamics Corp. [Morales],
769 F.2d 66, 17 BRBS 130 (CRT) (2d Cir. 1985), and Del Vacchio v. Sun
Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., 16 BRBS 190 (1984), which explain the aggravation
rule.  Under the aggravation rule, if an employment injury aggravates, accelerates,
or combines with a pre-existing impairment to produce a disability greater than
that which would have resulted from the employment injury alone, the entire
resulting disability is compensable. Port of Portland v. Director, OWCP, 932
F.2d 836, 24 BRBS 137 (CRT) (9th Cir. 1991); Strachan Shipping Co. v. Nash,
782 F.2d 513, 18 BRBS 45 (CRT) (5th Cir. 1986) (en banc).  A work-related
aggravation of a pre-existing injury is compensable in itself under the Act and is
considered a new injury. Del Vacchio, 16 BRBS at 193; Chiarella v.
Bethlehem Steel Corp., 13 BRBS 91 (1981).  However, if a condition is the
natural progression or unavoidable result of the initial injury, then the resulting
disability is not separately compensable as a new injury but is considered part and
parcel of the initial injury. See generally Foundation Constructors, Inc. v.
Director, OWCP [Vanover], 950 F.2d 621, 25 BRBS 71 (CRT) (9th Cir. 1991).  As
claimant and employer resolved the original claim for compensation via a Section
8(i) settlement, employer cannot now be held liable for any condition which is
considered to be the result of the natural progression of the original injury.
Consequently, the issue presented by claimant is whether his 1985 arm/shoulder
condition is the result of the natural progression of his 1979 injury or whether
it is due to a work-related aggravation and, therefore, is a new compensable
injury.
In this case, Dr. Whitney originally diagnosed tendinitis in claimant's right
shoulder. Jt. Ex. 1.  In November 1985, he diagnosed a probable tear in the rotator
cuff in the same shoulder, which "may relate to . . . the previous injury to his
shoulder plus some degenerative progression change." Jt. Ex. 8 at 17.  The doctor
notified employer's carrier of this condition, and in his notification letter he
referred to the condition as a "progressive aggravation" which dates back to the
1979 injury because of the type of pain claimant suffers, because claimant has not
fully recovered from his 1979 problems, and because claimant's condition "has been
aggravated and made worse due to some of his activities in the meantime and
particularly brush picking." Jt. Ex. 9.  Based on Dr. Whitney's conclusions and on
the parties' joint statement of facts, which refers to Dr. Whitney's medical
reports, claimant asserts that his injury has been aggravated by his continued
employment.  The administrative law judge rejected claimant's argument, stating:
That the arm/shoulder injury sustained by claimant on September 29, 1979
has worsened by natural progression does not resurrect the settled
claim, and such aggravation as may have occurred in claimant's post
settlement employment as a brush picker (Joint Ex. 8, 9), evidently for
an employer other than respondent, is not respondents' liability.
Decision and Order at 2.
Contrary to the administrative law judge's statement, there is no evidence of
record that claimant was working for another employer as of the date Dr. Whitney
stated claimant's condition was worsening.  The only evidence concerning how the
alleged aggravation may have occurred is Dr. Whitney's report which states that
claimant worked as a brush picker. Jt. Exs. 8-9.  Therefore, the administrative law
judge erred in attributing "such aggravation as may have occurred" to an anonymous
employer.  Additionally, he did not determine the cause of claimant's 1985
condition, and in fact described it as both a "natural progression" and an
"aggravation." See Decision and Order at 2.  Because claimant's potential
entitlement to benefits rests on whether his current condition is due to a "natural
progression" or an "aggravation," the administrative law judge must make this
determination.  Accordingly, we vacate the denial of benefits, and we remand the
case for the administrative law judge to ascertain whether claimant's condition was
aggravated by his continued employment. See Merrill v. Todd Pacific Shipyards
Corp., 25 BRBS 140 (1991).  If claimant has sustained an aggravation, then he
may be entitled to additional benefits; if not, then the Section 8(i) settlement
constitutes the final disposition of the original claim for benefits, which
includes the natural progression of claimant's condition, and, as there has been
no second injury, employer cannot be held liable for additional disability
compensation. See generally Port of Portland, 932 F.2d at 836, 24 BRBS at
137 (CRT); Poole v. Ingalls Shipbuilding, Inc., 27 BRBS 230 (1993).
In its cross-appeal, employer contends the administrative law judge erred in
awarding claimant's counsel an attorney's fee for work performed after January 14,
1987.  Specifically, employer argues it is not liable for any fee generated after
that date, pursuant to Section 28(b), 33 U.S.C. §928(b), as the controversy
over medical benefits was settled on January 14, 1987, when it conceded liability,
and the only issue remaining for the hearing was the Section 22 issue which it
succeeded in defending.  Thus, employer maintains that claimant's counsel's efforts
failed to produce additional benefits for claimant after January 14, 1987.
Under Section 28 of the Act, approved fees must be reasonably commensurate
with the necessary work performed.  33 U.S.C. §928; 20 C.F.R. §702.132.
An employer may be held liable for an attorney's fee under Section 28(a), 33 U.S.C.
§928(a), when it controverts an aspect of the claim and the claimant
thereafter employs an attorney in the successful prosecution of the claim. See
National Steel & Shipbuilding Co. v. U.S. Department of Labor, 606 F.2d 875,
11 BRBS 68 (9th Cir. 1979); Mobley v. Bethlehem Steel Corp., 20 BRBS 239
(1988), aff'd, 920 F.2d 558, 24 BRBS 49 (CRT) (9th Cir. 1990); Powers v.
General Dynamics Corp., 20 BRBS 119 (1987); 20 C.F.R. §702.134(a).
Because employer controverted this claim, and claimant thereafter established his
entitlement to medical benefits, Section 28(a), and not Section 28(b), controls
whether claimant's counsel is entitled to a fee payable by employer.  However, in
view of the fact that claimant's success before the administrative law judge
initially was limited to his obtaining medical benefits and, in view of our
decision to remand the case for the administrative law judge to ascertain whether
claimant is entitled to additional disability compensation, we vacate the fee
award.  On remand, the administrative law judge must reconsider counsel's fee
petition and the objections thereto in light of his decision on the merits.[1]
Accordingly, the administrative law judge's denial of additional disability
benefits and his fee award are vacated, and the case is remanded for further
consideration in accordance with this opinion.  In all other respects, the Decision
and Order is affirmed.
REGINA C. McGRANERY
1)In awarding counsel's fee, the administrative law judge must
consider claimant's degree of success in prosecuting the claim, Bullock v.
Ingalls Shipbuilding, Inc., 27 BRBS 90 (1993) (en banc) (Brown and
McGranery, JJ., concurring and dissenting), modified on other grounds on recon.
en banc, 28 BRBS 102 (1994), and he also should consider the date employer
conceded liability for medical expenses, Cahill v. International Terminal
Operating Co., Inc., 14 BRBS 483 (1981).

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Q: Multiline string for TextFormString validator In my TextFormString for Password Field I have validator that returns a String. The problem is this String is too long and it doesn't fit the screen.
I'd like to make it multiline, but I can't find how to do it: I've tried setting width for the Container this TextFormString is in -- no effect, I've hardcoded newlines \n to my String, it actually worked but I think there must be some other solution to break it to lines more dynamically.
What is the right way to do it?
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A: You can decorate your TextFormFiled so that the error label has more than 1 lines:
errorMaxLines: 2

Here an example:
TextFormField(
    decoration: const InputDecoration(
    icon: Icon(Icons.person),
    hintText: 'What do people call you?',
    labelText: 'Name *',
    errorMaxLines: 2
    ),
    validator: (String value) {
    return value.contains('@')
        ? 'Do not use the @ char. Do not use the @ char. Do not use the @ char. Do not use the @ char.'
        : null;
    },
),

In this example I didn't set obscureText: true (desiderata for a password field), so that the text is visible.

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A couple of years ago Washington fell into anaphylactic shock over the high cost of EpiPens, devices that shoot adrenaline into someone having an allergic reaction. But the Trump administration this week injected some overdue competition into the market that could lower prices for millions of Americans.
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Gottlieb has made clarity for such complex generics a priority at the FDA, and on Thursday he called the Teva device approval part of the agency's efforts to remove barriers to competition. The approval is particularly timely amid supply shortages of EpiPens.


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A Young Jew's First Week in Berlin
Photo Credit: Nikki Mills
By Nikki Mills
As I've spent the past week navigating this city, there's one thought I can't seem to shake: What might this moment feel like if I was standing on this street 80 years ago?
Last Tuesday started in frantic bus-catching and bus-missing. Nora and I thought we planned out a calm morning of café musings and decedent parfait, only to find out that we were busless at 9:10 am and 25 minutes away from a 9:30 am walking tour about Jewish History and Culture with Carolyn Gammon. Some disgruntled words were exchanged (none too disgruntled that we couldn't laugh about it later) and by 9:38 we found ourselves running to our classmates. I managed to avoid eye contact with Heidi for a full 30 minutes. In all that time spent frantically searching for a means of transportation, I hadn't taken time to prepare myself for what I was about to experience. A "Jewish History Tour w/ Carolyn Gammon" our syllabus read. A Jewish History Walking tour in the capital of Germany. As Gökçe Yurdakul and Y. Michal Bodemann aptly put it, Germany "is the last country in which Jews would want to live" (2006). It was exactly this haunting memory that attracted me to Germany this summer. For most of my life, I have admittedly harbored some prejudice against all things German: German cars, German music, even German beer. I wanted to confront that prejudice head on, and collide I did.
Last Tuesday, arriving at the Jewish History Tour w/ Carolyn Gammon sweating and panicked from the public transportation fiasco, I didn't allow myself to process what I now have the luxury of processing. I knew on some level that Tuesday would not simply be a stroll around Berlin pointing and discussing history. It was a history of me, my ancestors, their murders and murderers. It wasn't until I was standing on Bebelplatz in front of the Humboldt Universität Law School doors, the very place that Joseph Goebbels, Reich Minister of Propaganda for the Nazi party, stood on the evening of May 10, 1933 burning thousands of books, that it struck me. As Carolyn spent a few minutes recounting that evening, all I heard were the cheers of thousands of young people as book by book were tossed carelessly into the fire. I could hear those same cheers as Jew by Jew were tossed carelessly into the fire pits of Auschwitz II-Birkenau. Could anyone else hear the cheers? I tried to hold in whatever it was that so desperately needed to come out in that moment until I saw the memorial to the book burning, set into the Bebelplatz plaza created by Micha Ullman. It was an empty room full of empty bookshelves to hold the souls of the 20,000+ books burned that night on Bebelplatz. Emptiness. So often the modus operandi for holocaust memorials. From that moment on, I could no longer hold back my tears. We continued to Grosse Hamburger Strasse Cemetery, a Jewish cemetery that holds no bodies. Dug up and thrown out as if they were weeds to be cleared, the plot of land was the only piece of them remaining. I needed to mourn but didn't know how. I felt so young and so lost. In a cemetery with no bodies, I left with a bigger pit in my stomach than any other cemetery had ever left in me.
We finished the tour around noon, and I decided to delay lunch a few more hours. I felt the need to retrace our steps. My heart was open and bleeding, leaving a stream through the streets of Berlin. My limbs were in Bebeleplatz. My knees, the cemetery. My feet, at the base of Martin Luther. And my neck strewn along death street. I needed find them, to piece myself back together and salvage what I could of the other 6 million souls. I headed back to "Death Street," to the cemetery, to the remains of the Alte Synagogue destroyed on Kristallnacht, and to Bebelplatz. As I walked, I was gathering. I gathered myself, my sister and brother, my mom and dad, my nana, my grandma, my grandpa, my aunts and uncles, cousins, friends, everyone I had taken along with me. I mourned and cried and persisted on my pilgrimage. But there was no way I could find everything. I left my heart on "Death Street."
I then decided to devote some time to the Jewish museums we passed earlier on our tour. The Silent Heroes Memorial Site is tucked away in a graffiti-filled alley way just outside Hackesher Markt. The front door is easy to pass by in the whirlwind of color and activity in this small alley, but worth the stop. When I walked in, the person sitting behind the desk looked confused. "Are you open?" I peeped. Their face relaxed, "Yes." It doesn't seem as if this museum gets many visitors, but it's purpose and message are vital to the Jewish history of Berlin. The museum is not huge or particularly "gaudy;" it is a simple database collecting as much information as possible about the "Hidden Heroes" of the Holocaust—the people who risked their lives, the lives of the friends and family, to save a few Jews. I sat down at a long table covered in new-agey computers. I typed in the only name I could think of: "Oskar Schindler." There he was, and there was Emilie. This free space holds troves of information, and I would recommend anyone who has time between their alternative graffiti tour and Berlin history walking tour to pop in.
Fittingly, immediately to the right of the Silent Heroes museum lies a silent hero. The Museum of Otto Weidt's Workshop for the Blind, another equally small space, holds some of the actual workbenches for blind Jews who worked in his shop. Otto Weidt was able to hide and protect blind Jews (himself a partially blind German) for a large portion of the war. In the museum, there's a picture hanging behind one of the workbenches. It's a photo of about 30 or 40 people, all blind Jews expect for a little Otto in the bottom right corner. Some of the people have a number correlating to a key on the side with their name and fate after the war. Most were killed in Auschwitz. Some didn't have a number. I took a moment to mourn for them.
Friday evening, 30 minutes to Shabbat, I boarded the 245 bus to Oranienplatz. I walked past hostel bars and Asian-fusion restaurants, past loud American tourists and quiet panhandlers, until I reached the one building slightly out of place, a massive ornate building proudly sporting a Star of David atop its picturesque dome. The Neue Synagogue. I walked up a red carpet to a metal detector. I showed my passport and purse while a woman skirted around me. "Good shabbis," she smiled as she disappeared into the next room. My soul filled. I entered the synagogue, now museum, and continued up three flights of huge marbled stairs. I found a sign that pointed right, "synagogue," picked up a tallit and prayer book, and found myself in a very small very plain-looking room. It didn't seem to match the ornateness of the outside. I received a few more good shabbis and sat down in the back. I was one of eleven. Forty minutes into the hour service that I remembered where I was. I remembered that I was the stranger in the room. Being the stranger suddenly felt okay, almost comforting, because I wasn't, we were all Jews and all shared a common language. As I walked out, I asked the young man behind me what it's like to live in a place so saturated by the history of the Holocaust. He laughed—laughed!
"How long have you been in Berlin?"
"Well stop your tears! It's time to have fun!"
Nikki Mills hails from the swampy Washington, D.C. area, and treasures the moments she gets to spend in sunny Colorado. She's an Anthropology major and Political Science minor, but in an effort to leave her comfort zone and still explore issues close to her heart, she's chosen to take her first official Feminist & Gender Studies course this summer. On campus, Nikki can be found hanging from ropes in the climbing gym and attending Shabbat dinners at the Interfaith House. Throughout school and beyond, she hopes to continue working hard for the disregarded in our society and find creative ways of moving past this particularly vile moment in U.S. history.
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The Told and Untold Stories of Berlin: A Walk-Through History
Photo Credit: Talia Silverstein
By Talia Silverstein
Today our adventures in Berlin took us through some of the city's most famous historical sites. Our tour guide, Kathinka Minthe, walked us through many parts of the city, teaching us about the history, social discourse, and controversy that each place held. We started at the Reichstag Building, home to the German Parliament and finished at Museum Island where we saw Angela Merkel's home. We visited the Brandenburg Gate, walked through Tiergarten, and explored The Memorial for the Murdered Jews. We walked along Hannah Arendt Straße to get to the site of Hitler's old bunker, now a parking lot, and later saw Detlev-Rohwedder-Haus, a section of the old Berlin wall. Around the corner was the Topographie of Terror and Checkpoint Charlie, the site of a historic standoff. We wrapped up at the site of the infamous book burning, across the street from the Käthe Kollwitz Museum. The focus of our tour was to examine the ways in which these historical landmarks allowed us to discuss some of the "hidden" women of Berlin's intricate history.
One of the topics discussed was remembering history without memorializing all of it. When you visit Germany, the first thing many American visitors think about are the sites where World War II, Nazis, and Hitler stood not so long ago. This horrific history is something every German citizen acknowledges and learns about, but many of the actual sites that had been part of the war are now new or renovated. The historical relevance of the war is not lost on people today. As Michael Stewart writes in Remembering without Commemoration: The Mnemonics and Politics of Holocaust Memories among European Roma, "I came to feel that for many people, the memory of the entire war was condensed into a few images that were normally kept deep in the shadows of the cave, illuminated occasionally and incandescently before being enveloped gain in the penumbra of the past." While this is a history that Berlin wants to make sure to remember, when it comes to memorializing an atrocity it is hard to find "positive" ways to do this. It seems to me that the people of Berlin are in a constant struggle between remembering and acknowledging atrocities without glorifying those who committed them. We cannot forget the actions of Hitler and the Nazis, but at the same time, Berlin must be able to grow and develop. The people of Berlin have made the conscious decision to memorialize some and destroy others. The sites most often destroyed were those with ties to the Nazi party to deter neo-Nazis from using the places as a pilgrimage sites.
A surreal moment during our tour was when we visited Checkpoint Charlie. None of the historical or original buildings are there at all. What remains are tourist-oriented museums designed to attract. The streets are full of stereotypical USSR and fake communist propaganda for sale. It was a space flooded with tourists hoping to see a piece of history. In the middle of the street a fake USSR checkpoint hut stands for people to take pictures with, of course only if they are willing to pay a fee. The line to take pictures by the hut stretched over a block and almost every tourist held in hand some piece of fake propaganda or were adorned in Cold War uniform replicas. It seemed like a cheesy a commodification not only of a difficult history, but also of the German/Soviet. Watching people capitalize on the hardships of millions left a pit in my stomach.
Further, the little proof we saw of accomplished women was hard to find and are usually newer and smaller. For example, during our tour on Tuesday, Carolyn Gammon showed us that the women's wing in Humboldt University was only a tiny hallway. To build on this today, we learned about Käthe Kollwitz, a German artist. Her art depicts poverty, hunger, and working-class struggles. She was the first woman elected to the Prussian Academy of Arts, and had a small museum in her honor. We would've visited but, like a lot of Berlin, it was unfortunately closed for renovations. Another famous Berliner, Hannah Arendt, a political theorist and philosopher, has a street named after her. The last woman we saw at the Topographie of Terror was Stella Kubler, a Jewish convert to Christianity turned catcher, who went underground rounding up hidden Jews for the Gestapo. She was an open anti-Semite and was eventually charged with war crimes.
Photo Credit: Liza Bering
Reflecting on the absence of women's history, they truly are hidden. With a critical eye, you can begin to uncover the stories of these powerful and notable women. As Sidonia Blättler and Irene M. Marti write in "Rosa Luxemburg and Hannah Arendt: Against the Destruction of Political Spheres of Freedom, "Internal contradictions, incompleteness, and obstinacy characterize the work of Rosa Luxemburg as well as that of Hannah Arendt […] Due to their respective Jewish and Jewish-Polish origins, their gender (which they hardly ever mentioned and when they did, only in private) and the prevailing historical-political situation, both women were strangers in a world whose imposing list of identifications they flatly refused." As a Jewish woman who has grown up in a predominantly Jewish community, I can't help but to recognize the importance of remembering this history. As Stewart writes, "Rather than focus on the means of 'forgetting', 'obliterating', and 'downplaying' the past' I focus on the ways in which, despite Gypsy 'presentist' rhetoric, the past is 'remembered' among Gypsy populations." Until now, I have never understood the struggle for those who it so closely surrounds to be able to escape this history in order to be recognized as more than it.
Talia Silverstein is a rising sophomore from Port Washington, NY. She is planning on majoring in Race, Ethnicity, and Migration Studies and double minoring in Political Science and Feminist and Gender Studies at Colorado College. She is passionate about her photography, drawing, and poetry. During her time at CC, she hopes to have more opportunities like this class that allow her to travel, explore, and participate in hands on learning. While in Berlin, she plans on getting lost as much as possible unless it makes her late to class.
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Jewish History Walking Tour
By Amanda Cahn
At nine this morning, Carolyn Gammon found our class outside of Humboldt University in East Berlin. All of us sat on the cement, tucked into a corner of half-shade and half-sunshine. We first walked into the courtyard of the university, where we sat on benches and she began by saying, "We don't know what we don't know." In the context of the tour, this meant that there is always a lot that we don't see or learn when we take tours. She also connected her saying to recent political events. For instance, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the President of Turkey, publicly critiqued Germany for committing the first genocide of the Herero and Namaqua in the 20th century. This information was not publicized a great deal, and Carolyn believes that the media is intentionally suppressing this information. This clearly set an interesting stage for our tour about the Jewish history in Germany, as it encouraged us to think about the kinds of narratives we learn and those that are suppressed.
Our thinking about this continued when we learned there was a recently constructed statue of Lise Meitner behind the benches on which we sat. Meitner discovered how to split the atom, and is considered by some to be deserving of the Nobel Prize. However, she most likely did not ever receive it due to her identity as a Jewish woman. We found the same theme of privileging certain identities when we entered the university building. In the large entrance room of the second floor, photographs of male German scholars lined the walls, celebrated for their accomplishments. We had to walk into the small hallway on the side to see the photographs of female German scholars, who seemed almost hidden in comparison. It is noteworthy that many of them were Jewish as well. The photographs appeared to have been added to the collection as an afterthought.
Next, we exited the building back into the heat and crossed the street, finding ourselves in front of another beautiful building. It turned out to be the courtyard in which the Nazis burned over 20,000 books in 1933. It was a demonstration of power, as well as a way to control what knowledge was and was not circulated. After the book burning, those in danger who were able to began to flee the country. Now, a memorial exists at this site, which includes an underground room, visible through a glass sheet, that has enough empty bookshelves to hold as many books that were burned. There is also a plaque showcasing a quote from Heinrich Heine's Almansor: A Tragedy (1823), which can be translated to, "Where they burn books, they will also burn people."
Next, we walked to the statue of Martin Luther, who was the leader of the new Protestant church in the 1500s. What was most intriguing about this part of the tour was learning that Luther became extremely anti-Semitic after he failed to convert many Jews. For instance, he published a 900-page tome entitled On the Jews and Their Lies, which led to a lot of violence toward the Jews. However, his statue still stands in Berlin, because few people actually think about him in that light. As Carolyn said, "Germans are good at remembering 20th century anti-Semitism, but not earlier accounts."
Afterwards, we visited a park which had previously been a synagogue, before it was bombed. Nearby, there had been a pre-deportation prison. When the propaganda minister wanted to remove all of the Jews from Berlin, they were taken there as a surprise, right when they arrived to work one morning. Because they were Jews married to non-Jews, 2000 white, non-Jewish women peacefully protested, because they wanted their husbands to come home. The men were released, which just goes to show how much of a difference white, non-Jewish Germans might have made if they had tried to stand against the Nazis, because if the women had not fit the very specific identity requirements of the Nazis, they likely would have been murdered.
After our break, we learned about the small gold plaques in the ground called stumbling stones that commemorate Holocaust victims created by artist Gunter Demnig. There are 55,000 placed all over Europe. The first ones we saw commemorated a 2-year-old and 12-year-old who were murdered at Auschwitz in 1943. In "The School Lives of Jewish Children and Youth in the Third Reich," Marion Kaplan writes, "By July 1941 about 25,000 Jewish children and youth under age 25 remained within the borders of pre-1938 Germany. Close to 20,000 under the age of 18 were murdered" (49). The way in which Nazis murdered so many young children really demonstrates how much they had dehumanized the Jews.
After this, we walked to Berlin's oldest Jewish cemetery, which is now a green space like the park, because the Nazis removed not only the gravestones but the bodies as well. According to Carolyn, many say to "beware of the green spaces" in Berlin, because they are often sites of past atrocities. Along these lines, outside of the cemetery, there is a sculpture that represents Ravensbrück, which was a concentration camp for women and children. Regarding concentration camps, I was surprised when Carolyn said that many people in the concentration camps were actually slave laborers who weren't Jewish and that we just hear more about Jews more because the Nazis killed half of the world's Jewish population. Along these lines, in "Troubling Categories I Can't Think Without: Reflections on Women in the Holocaust" Ruth Linden claims,
The tendency, evident in Holocaust scholarship of 1960s and 70s, to privilege the experiences of one group (in this case, the 'strugglers'), while turning our gaze away from other groups. In this way, Jews outside of the ghettos and camps and non-Jews persecuted and murdered by the Nazis (namely, Sinti, Roma, homosexual men, Communists, Jehovah's Witnesses, Hutterites, people convicted of crimes, and Slavs), have become marginalized in Holocaust discourse (24).
On the one hand, I don't think it's at all okay that the other groups were often left out of the discourse, since it could be easily interpreted as the message that their lives don't matter as much. On the other hand, I do understand why the Jews have been the focus, since it was the Nazi's most successful attempt at "wiping out" an entire community.
Throughout the tour, I kept thinking about how the German-Jewish history has affected Germany even in the contemporary period. In the "Foreword to the English Language Edition" of Showing Our Colors: Afro-German Women Speak Out, Audre Lorde asserts that in 1990s Germany, there was still a "dormant neo-Nazi element," which resulted in the continuation of "aggressive racism and anti-Semitism in Germany" (xii). Twenty-six years later, Carolyn said that she believes Germans are facing their crimes against humanity. However, they need to extend their acknowledgement to other victims as well, such as the Afro-Germans for whom there is no Holocaust memorial.
We ended our tour outside of the Neue Synagoge, which was one of the targets of Pogrom Night (also referred to as Crystal Night). The Jews have always had to fight to survive, and I thank God that the Nazis were unsuccessful in wiping us out. It is terrifying to think about such atrocities, but absolutely necessary in order to try and prevent history from repeating itself. All in all, it was an extremely educational tour, and I think that everyone in the class was appreciative of the opportunity.
Amanda Cahn is from Portland, Oregon and a rising senior at Colorado College, with a major in Feminist and Gender Studies and a minor in Spanish. She is passionate about advocating for reproductive rights and has worked with Planned Parenthood teaching sexual education in public high schools, as well as analyzing statistical data from their various sexual education programs. In her free time, she enjoys hiking, reading, and spending time with friends.
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10 Country Crossovers That Actually Worked
Annie Zaleski Published: May 22, 2018
In 2008, Darius Rucker released his debut country single, "Don't Think I Don't Think About It." The gold-selling, No. 1 Country Airplay song effectively kicked off a second career for the South Carolina native; after all, he was also the lead singer for the popular '90s pop-rock band Hootie & the Blowfish, which sold millions of copies of their 1994 album Cracked Rear View.
Rucker's transition made a lot of sense: Hootie & the Blowfish's easygoing tunes were grounded in folk and Southern rock, and his voice has the soulful emotional timbre needed for country success. However, Rucker is far from the only artist to switch to country after starting out playing another style of music — and he's also not alone in finding enduring success within the genre.
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Legal revisions targeted at attracting foreign talent take effect
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Revised regulations on work, residence and tax concessions designed to attract foreign professionals to live and work and Taiwan took effect Monday, according to the National Development Council (NDC).
The amendments to the Act for the Recruitment and Employment of Foreign Professionals, passed in June 2021, in part expand the definition of professional fields and occupations eligible for the incentives.
Beyond the eight professional fields covered in the original act, it now includes national defense and other fields identified by competent authorities, and additional occupations include teachers for children of foreign professionals and experimental education.
In terms of benefits for foreign nationals working in Taiwan, the revisions will allow professionals in a specialized or technical field with a master's degree or above or who have graduated from a top college to no longer need two years of outside work experience to work in Taiwan, except where restricted by law.
The changes will also shorten the time foreign professionals need to get permanent residency to three years from the previous five years, and those three years can be further reduced if a person spends 1-2 years in Taiwan studying for a master's or Ph.D. degree.
In terms of optimizing social protections and tax concessions, the revisions allow tax deductions for foreign special professionals to be extended from three to five years.
It also allows professionals who are employers or business owners and their dependents to be covered immediately by Taiwan's national health insurance system and have the typical six-month waiting period waived.
Source: Focus Taiwan News Channel