The YCI invites grant requests that assist young people to LISTEN FOR, DISCERN, and RESPOND WELL to God's call to ordained ministry.
Exploration creates sacred space for young adults, ages 18-26, to be in MEANINGFUL FELLOWSHIP, PASSIONATE WORSHIP, THEOLOGICAL REFLECTION, and PRACTICAL WORKSHOPS as they discern whether God's call on their life is to ordained ministry in The United Methodist Church and what faithful steps they can take in response.
…but ministry means more than ordination. Called is a resource that helps your congregation explore how to LISTEN for God's voice, DISCERN what you've heard, and RESPOND faithfully.
The VDC coordinates the candidacy mentoring process in their annual conference. They coordinate, implement, and strengthen the candidacy process through recruiting, training, and assigning mentors to new candidates.
The Journey Toward Ordained Ministry is a $5,000/year scholarship, retreat, and mentor experience for college and seminary students pursuing ordination in The United Methodist Church.


For this episode of The CEP, Colt and James sat down at The Monocle with Matt Hall, front man for the band Inner Outlines. The band describes themselves as "A collection of souls brought together as Inner Outlines to bring music to the world, people closer together, and to be a beacon of change for the better." We had a great time chatting with Matt about the origins of the band, the members, and what the future holds for Inner Outlines. This is a band on the local St. Louis scene that you definitely don't want to miss out on! Go to inneroutlines.com now and purchase their EP "Its not safe here." You wont regret it!


ROBIN S. Sharma, a Canadian writer and lawyer, known for his 'The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari' book series, once described leadership as "not about a title or a designation, but about impact, influence and inspiration." Impact, according to him involves getting results; while influence is about spreading the passion you have for your work. Corroborating this, John C. Maxwell said: "A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way." The thoughts of these great philosophers and leaders' best describe Prince Adewumi Adefemi Samuel, popularly known as PAAS.
For Prince Adewumi, leadership qualities and a keen passion for human and environmental development are by instinct! He could be said to have been well groomed as a leader, and developer of the people and the society right from his childhood, having been born into the royal dynasty of the Olowuro of Orun-Ekiti, His Royal Majesty, Oba Zacchaeus Oluwatosin Aderounmu Adewumi (Omuyomade I).
Ice on the cake of his leadership qualities and passion for the development of his people is his managerial skills and thirst for learning. His academic background; first degree in Computer Science (Information Systems) from Babcock University and Masters in Mobile Telecommunications Management from the prestigious University of Glamorgan (now University of South Wales) in the UK, and a professional certification in Management by the Nigeria Institute of Management (NIM), are also proven confirmations of his ability to manage not only men, but also resources.
Among other things, PAAS's close associates could testify to his natural willingness to always strive towards positively impacting, influencing and inspiring the people around him. As a result, PAAS is a name being mentioned with increasing popularity at all corners of the city of Lagos. From his Orun-Ekiti hometown to many countries in Europe and America among other continents, people are talking about the man whose core hobby is rendering of humanitarian services.
This is due to his various volunteer works. Notable is his contribution to the development of some local communities in Jalingo, Taraba State while observing the compulsory National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in 2009. His laudable efforts and contributions led to his emergence as the President, Tourism Community Development Service Group. He coordinated local community development projects and went the extra mile to publicize and enhance the Tourism potentials of the state and designed relevant programmes to build and enhance the cordial relationship between Corps members and the host community and Taraba State at large.
After his youth service, he continued his selfless service by joining the Rotaract Club, a service, leadership, professional and community service organization, where he served meritoriously in different capacities within and outside the shores of Nigeria.
Proving that the elasticity of his patriotism and developmental is limitless, Prince Adewumi, during his Postgraduate studies in the University of Glamorgan (now University of South Wales) in 2013, he became the International Students Mentor for Faculty of Advanced Technology. In this capacity, he helped new students to familiarize with the University facilities both online and on-campus; helped the new students in adjusting and settling to a new environment. He was also the LifeStraw (Rotary Club of Brynmawr, Wales) Ambassador to Nigeria through which he created awareness of LifeStraw by organizing seminars and fundraising events. He was also the In-District Representative of Rotary Crocus for Rotary in Great Britain and Ireland, a Global Polio Eradication Initiative.
After his postgraduate degree, Prince Adewumi worked in both national and international reputable organizations and in various capacities, among which are Fluorinet Digital Limited, a digital media agency, and Makasa Sun Nigeria Limited, a telecommunication maintenance and support servicing company.
The recent declaration of Prince Adewumi Adefemi Samuel to represent the people of Ise-Orun Constituency at the Ekiti State House of Assembly, no doubt, would not only benefit his constituent, but the whole of Ekiti, as this would give him a better pedestal to extend the tentacle of his humanitarian services and contributions to the society. Over the years and across the lands, he has largely contributed to the development of the community by sponsoring and organizing vocational training for the youths and unemployed. To ensure that teenagers are timely keyed into the developmental goals and objectives of a better nation, PAAS has also actively mentored the youths via viable various platforms.
A risk taker, decisive, competitive and competent PAAS is not petty and impulsive, but he is logical, calculative, independent and ready to engage in challenging and more tasking jobs. Not only that, he is emotionally stable and financially disciplined.
Above all, he is a realist and a humanist.
But perhaps better than any words this writer can muster is the man PAAS's own words on his commission on this planet earth.


After weeks of scrutiny inside Council Chambers and on professional and social media, Lee's Summit City Council member Diane Forte has resigned her post as Council Liaison to the Parks Board.
The liaison position is an appointment made by the Council's Mayor Pro tem. Forte was recently re-assigned the position by new Mayor Pro tem Rob Binney. But the assignment was quickly protested by newly elected Council member Chris Moreno after he was informed, Forte's business, Diane Forte Enterprises, had been retained to provide services for the Parks Board.
According Missouri law, elected city officials are prohibited from doing business with the city in which they serve, unless the amount is less than $500. If the amount exceeds that limit, a public competitive bid process is required.
Forte's business filled two orders from the parks department for trophies given to volunteers, one in 2015 for $768 and the second in 2016 for $1,170. Forte said she has filed both transactions with the Missouri Ethics Commission. In her statement, she said the violation of the state law was a misunderstanding of the rules and that she was resigning the liaison post, because this issue was becoming a distraction to both the work of the Council and the Parks and Recreation Department.
You can view the full segment of last week's Council meeting concerning this issue here.
Because the dispute has sparked a slew of attention from area media and social media outlets, Mayor Randy Rhoads chose to open the Council session by reading a statement aimed at refocusing the body's attention to other matters and efforts to keep the City's image in a positive light.


Ed Sikorski works as a driver at ArborMotion.
How did you end up driving?
I'm retired and wanted a part-time job where I could interact with people.
This is my first auto related job.
I have been driving for ArborMotion for 2 years. Before that I practiced law for over 40 years.
What unique challenges and rewards come from working at ArborMotion?
I enjoy engaging with our customers. Each one is different and every ride is a new experience. I find navigating Ann Arbor traffic during rush hour and avoiding construction zones challenging.
What is the weirdest experience you have had while driving?
Gaining access to restricted areas to pick up and drop off customers, such as the Ann Arbor Airport.
I'm very thorough and follow up with every assignment. I am also a mediator and put the listening skills I have gained to use while transporting customers.
I enjoy resolving conflict and the resolution that comes from it.
Boating. I enjoy spending the day on the water fishing. I also hunt.
I spend most of my time off with my family, especially my 4 grandchildren. And on the boat, of course.


Prestigious, exclusive, unique: We are talking about the Mercedes-Maybach S-Class. In the Mercedes-Maybach S-Class the perfection of the Mercedes-Benz S-Class blends with the exclusivity of Maybach.
Maybach vehicles have always enjoyed the reputation of being the summit of the art of automotive engineering. In the 20s and 30s of the last century they were the most handsome, largest and most valuable luxury cars, and were absolutely state-of-the-art in terms of their engineering.


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The Inglorious Arts: An Alec Brno Novel (Paperback)
By Alan Hruska
Seasoned New York lawyer Alec Brno, first introduced in Pardon the Ravens, is tested again by overlapping personal and professional crises. Early on, he's asked to rescue his firm's oldest client, who is being sued vindictively by a giant public utility, as well as the firm's largest client, embroiled in a politically motivated suit before a lunatic federal judge. To avoid crippling results, and the loss of more than 200,000 jobs, Alec must somehow get rid of both cases almost immediately and stop thousands of others from suing.
This seemingly impossible assignment arrives as Alec's adopted sixteen-year-old daughter, the inheritor of a Mafia fortune, is targeted in a sex-slave scheme by her uncle, the capo famiglia. Distractions only intensify when Alec's beautiful sister-in-law, who arrives from Dublin, looking and acting so much like his deceased wife, becomes a board piece in the Mob game. The Inglorious Arts follows Alec's heroics as he deals with corporate intrigues, political maneuvering, two high-stakes courtroom battles, Mob terror, and the frantic race to save the lives of the women he loves.
Alan Hruska is the author of the novels Wrong Man Running, Pardon the Ravens, It Happened at Two in the Morning, the writer of several plays produced in New York and London, and the writer and director of the films Reunion, The Warrior Class, and, most recently, The Man on Her Mind. A New York native and a graduate of Yale University and Yale Law School, he is a former trial lawyer who was involved in the some of the most significant litigation of the last half of the twentieth century. The Inglorious Arts is his fifth novel.
Publisher: Prospect Park Books
Publication Date: February 19th, 2019
Thrillers - Legal

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Marcel Maas (7 May 1897 – 11 June 1950) was a Dutch-Belgian pianist. He died at his home in Sint-Genesius-Rode, on 11 June 1950. His repertoire includes Bach and Scarlatti to the moderns; he was an appreciated interpreter of the solo piano music of Franck, Debussy and Ravel.

Life

Early years
He was born on 7 May 1897 in Clermont-Ferrand, France, where his father, a successful Dutch operatic bass, was then based. The family soon moved to Belgium and Marcel eventually took Belgian nationality. His brother, Robert Maas was a cellist.

Career
He studied at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels with Arthur De Greef and soon began an international career. In 1933 he became a professor at the Royal Brussels Conservatoire.

During the 1930s he joined the Quator Pro Arte, created with violinist Alfred Dubois and Robert Maas. Pro Arte became one of three outstanding sonata partnerships which flourished in the 1930s, along with Adolf Busch – Rudolf Serkin and Szymon Goldberg/Lili Kraus.

References

External links
 Collection of archival recordings by Marcel Maas on ContraClassics

Belgian classical pianists
1897 births
1950 deaths
20th-century classical pianists

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Why did the skeleton go to…
Why did the skeleton go to the BBQ? To get some spare ribs!
Jokes, +1:
A man was having premature ejaculation problems so he went to the doctor. The doctor said, "When you feel like you are getting ready to ejaculate, try startling yourself." That same day the man went to the store and bought himself a starter pistol and ran home to his wife. That night the two were having sex and found themselves in the 69 position. The man felt the urge to ejaculate and fired the starter pistol. The next day he went back to the doctor who asked how it went. The man answered, "Not well. When I fired the pistol, my wife pooped on my face, bit three inches off my penis, and my neighbor came out of the closet with his hands in the air."
Bob: "Why did the chicken cross…
Bob: "Why did the chicken cross the road?" Joe: "To get to the idiot's house."…
Yo mama so poor when I…
Yo mama so poor when I went to her house and stepped on a lit…
Q: Why did the old woman…
Q: Why did the old woman put roller skates on her rocking chair? A: Because…
When you die, you should have…
When you die, you should have your brain donated to science. I hear they're trying…
A little girl and boy are…
A little girl and boy are fighting about the differences between the sexes, and which…
Q: Why shouldn't you make fun…
Q: Why shouldn't you make fun of a paleontologist? A: Because you will get Jurasskicked.
Yo mama so ugly that her…
Yo mama so ugly that her pillows cry.
If debugging is the process of…
If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process…
Little Sally came home from school…
Little Sally came home from school with a smile on her face, and told her…
Q: Why did the golfer wear…
Q: Why did the golfer wear two pairs of pants? A: In case he got…
Q: Why do blondes wear underwear?…
Q: Why do blondes wear underwear? A: To keep their ankles warm.
A blonde gets lost and calls…
A blonde gets lost and calls for directions. The operator asks which cross streets she's…
Yo mama is so poor she…
Yo mama is so poor she waves a popsicle around for air conditioning.
Yo momma is so poor that…
Yo momma is so poor that when I asked her whats for dinner tonight she…
Q: What's red and bad for…
Q: What's red and bad for your teeth? A: A brick.
Teacher: "I asked you to draw…
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What is closed-circuit television (CCTV), who looks after CCTV, and their contact details.
Does the council operate CCTV cameras?
How does the council use CCTV?
When and why would we share the information captured?
What CCTV camera systems are in use and who looks after them?
CCTV (closed-circuit television) is a visual surveillance technology designed for monitoring a variety of environments and activities. CCTV systems involve a fixed (or 'dedicated') communications link between cameras and monitors.
The Council operates a number of surveillance cameras which are used in areas such as Council buildings, specific public spaces, at recycling centres and on refuse collection vehicles. These camera installations are owned and maintained by the Council (as a data controller) and are operated in line with data protection legislation, the Human Rights Act 1998 and guidelines, such as those issued by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) and the Surveillance Camera Commissioner, to ensure, for example, that the need for public protection is balanced with respect for the privacy of individuals.
How does the council use CCTV cameras?
We will only share camera footage where we are legally obliged to do so, or where we are allowed to do so under certain exemptions - for example, for the prevention or detection of crime.
This may involve making a copy of the storage media or a screen print, which may be used as evidence. In cases of suspected criminal activity, the storage media will normally be passed to the police for investigation. The police and other law enforcement agencies may, on showing good cause, request copies of storage media.
Data may be requested internally by Council departments (for example, Licensing Enforcement, Environment Enforcement, Community Safety etc.).
You can make a request to see footage that you appear in, your right to access is explained on our rights page.
The Council's data protection and Feedback Team monitor compliance with the Council's Surveillance Camera Policy. The Council is committed to ensuring that data protection impact assessments and codes of practices are in place for all of the surveillance camera systems it is responsible for operating.


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Sheldon's Spot, Sheldon, Running Gags,
Sheldon's Spot
Sheldon sitting in his spot on the couch.
"You're in my spot" ~ Sheldon's response to someone sitting on the left side of the couch.
Sheldon's Spot is a place in Sheldon and Leonard's apartment which Sheldon has claimed as his own. In his own words, Sheldon has placed this location "in a state of eternal dibs", and has little tolerance for anybody who tries to sit there. Specifically, the spot is the left side of the couch, but was also seen as his spot in the flashback episode "The Staircase Implementation", in which the first furniture seen in the living room are simple lawn chairs.
Attachment to his spot
Sheldon and Penny with his spot.
Sheldon defines his seat as "It is the singular location in space around which revolves my entire universe." Sheldon's attachment to his spot is well known to other characters, to the point that they're shocked when he gives his spot to Howard in the episode "The Apology Insufficiency". He did this because he accidentally botched Howard's opportunity to get a government job when Sheldon was being interviewed by an FBI agent asking Howard's friends about his conduct, although when the gang returned to their apartment, Sheldon claimed the spot back after only 94 seconds of not sitting on it.
Sheldon relates his spot to himself in mathematical terms in "The Cushion Saturation":
"In an ever-changing world it is a single point of consistency. If my life were expressed as a function on a 4-space|four-dimensional Cartesian coordinate system, that spot, at the moment I first sat on it, would be (0,0,0,0).
Sheldon also has a tendency to move in similar spots in order to subsidize with being out of his spot of the couch, such as the left side of a bench in jail in "The Excelsior Acquisition", a urinal in The Rothman Disintegration, and a space in the CalTech parking lot in "The Parking Spot Escalation".
Sheldon and Leonard signing The Roommate Agreement while Sheldon sits in his original spot, a lawn chair.
In "The Staircase Implementation" (when Leonard talks to Penny about when he first met Sheldon), it is learned that Sheldon had a spot where he always sits far before the acquisition of the couch. Of this spot (a lawn chair), Sheldon says "...I have placed [the seat] in a state of eternal dibs". While his justification for the positioning of this seat is similar to that of his future self, Sheldon was less socially inclined, thus the seat "...[facing] the television at a direct angle...[to avoid] being subjected to conversation...".
Sheldon sits in his seat on the couch for the first time.
When Leonard questions him, he says: "Cathedra mea, regulae meae. That's Latin for 'my chair, my rules'". However, once Sheldon finds that Leonard bought a couch for $100 from some people moving out of the apartment, he sits in each spot on the couch until he finds the one he likes best. Though this would become Sheldon's famous seat which he says is still not comfortable when he sits in it for the first time, but quickly joked that his discomfort was caused by the fact that there were too many people present.
When Leonard, Raj, and Howard leave, Sheldon smiles and says, "Oh yes. This is definitely going to be my spot", and thus, "Sheldon's Spot" was created. Penny questions how Leonard knows this, as he left the apartment, to which Leonard replies, "Do you want me to finish working on your man feet or not?"
In the pilot, Sheldon tells Penny, "In the winter that seat is close enough to the radiator to remain warm, and yet not so close as to cause perspiration. In the summer it's directly in the path of a cross breeze created by open windows there, and there. It faces the television at an angle that is neither direct, thus discouraging conversation, nor so far wide to create a parallax distortion, I could go on, but I think I've made my point."
"The Electric Can Opener Fluctuation" develops Sheldon's relationship with "Sheldon's Spot" whereupon after his return to Apartment 4A after their three-month scientific expedition to the North Pole, Sheldon addresses Sheldon's Spot saying, "hello, old friend," and upon settling into it, he contentedly sighs, "Daddy's home."' In the previous episode "The Monopolar Expedition", their furniture in the expedition hut is set up like in the apartment 4A with Sheldon sitting in the same relative location.
In "The Scavenger Vortex" (S7E03), in the scavenger hunt (that no one won) that Raj planned, "Sheldon's Spot" is the answer to the final riddle, and is supposed to be the final hidden location of the award, a coin.
As one would expect, Sheldon is shown sitting in his spot while eating take-out with the rest of the group in the very last scene of the show ("The Stockholm Syndrome").
Sheldon's photo of his spot for his future crazy self.
The couch.
In the unaired pilot, the concept of Sheldon's Spot was originally used for a table in a restaurant.
Due to Sheldon living in Apartment 4B, it's assumed that he won't be using his spot as often anymore; however, in future episodes when he visits, he does indeed continue to sit in his spot as he even claims that will "always be his spot".
Sheldon's grandmother is the only person Sheldon lets to sit in his spot.
However, when Sheldon is not present, many characters were seen sitting in his spot.
On rare cases, Sheldon doesn't complain when others sit in his spot.
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"The team spirit is just getting better and better"
Birthday boy Daniel Bentley chats to iFollow Brentford from France Training Camp
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In the interim, a package is available on https://live.sufc.co.uk allowing fans to listen to live audio commentary of all matches wherever in the world you find yourself, along with full match replays on demand. Subscriptions to this package will transfer automatically to the new platform when it launches later this year.
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Brentford goalkeeper Daniel Bentley feels that the spirit and togetherness he has seen in the Brentford camp this week could make all the difference as The Bees look ahead to the new Sky Bet Championship campaign.
Speaking to iFollow Brentford after another tough day on the pre-season Training Camp in Divonne-Les-Bains, Daniel, who turned 24 today, said: "It's been really enjoyable so far. The team spirit is just getting better and better. Every time that anyone mentions it you can just see the way that the players integrate with each other. You can see the banter that goes on but we also all push each other. Today was a great example, doing the running and finishing. We had boys around the pitch who weren't working but they were making sure that the boys were getting their work in and encouraging them. Camaraderie is going to be so important if we want to achieve the things that we want to achieve this year. It is a great thing to have and we have it in abundance."
Alongside the togetherness and team spirit, Daniel believes one of the other keys to the season will be the way that players look after themselves away from the Training Ground. The Bees are encouraged not to always rely on staff for help but instead take responsibility for their own wellbeing, something Daniel believes the group has really bought into.
"One of the things that is filtered down from the very top is self-management," said Daniel. "We are self-managing athletes and we have got a squad of players, and a squad of men, who take full responsibility for their wellbeing. That's in terms of what they eat, what they drink, and how they sleep. How they look after themselves away from the training ground and away from the club is important. We have a group of players who have been put together for the right reasons and that can be trusted away from the training ground. We try to look after each other and ourselves, and try not to rely too much on the information from the staff although it's there if we need it."
Alongside Luke Daniels and Goalkeeping Coach Simon Royce, Daniel said much of the week has been spent getting used to the new EFL balls which will be used this season. The Bees keeper revealed that the new match balls do a lot more in the air than previous balls and admitted they are taking a bit of getting adapting to.
"We have new balls this year and they have gone a little bit retro," said Daniel. "They have jazzy little lines on them and little indents so whoever designed the balls was trying to stitch the goalkeepers up because they move even more this year. Pre-season is about getting used to the ball and seeing the ball from our point of view from shots and crosses from different angles and distances. It is all relative with the outfield players getting a touch of the ball to us getting a touch of the ball with handling. That is a big part of what we do alongside the fitness part. I pride myself on coming back into pre-season training having worked hard for two or three weeks in my off-season so I come in at a level I am comfortable with."


The Directorate General of Goods and Services Tax Intelligence (DGGSTI) has arrested the directors of two Mumbai-based firms in connection with an alleged GST and service tax fraud case. The case amounts to Rs 173 crore alleged fraud.
DGGSTI has arrested the directors of two Mumbai-based firms in connection with an alleged GST and service tax fraud case.
The Directorate General of Goods and Services Tax Intelligence (DGGSTI) has arrested the directors of two Mumbai-based firms in connection with an alleged GST and service tax fraud case. The case amounts to Rs 173 crore alleged fraud. According to The Indian Express, the alleged director of a firm Horizon Outsource Solutions Private Limited, Amit Upadhyaya has taken the GST credit of Rs 80 crore from the government by submitting false invoices of software services. The firm received the said invoices from Asad Anwar Sayed of Best Computer Solutions Private Limited since July 2017. The investigation also revealed that Horizon Outsource had issued fake invoices claiming GST of Rs 47 crore to its clients.
"The agency has found that Horizon Outsource has issued and received fake invoices of about Rs 127 crore. While the case is still under investigation, Upadhyay may have also used bogus invoices to increase the turnover of his company and in turn increase his borrowing capacity from the banks," said a source to IE. The probe agency also suspects that the company may have been involved in money laundering.
According to reports, the firm has allegedly submitted a document showing a turnover of Rs 400 crore for the financial year 2016-17. Apart from these, the investigation agency has also found that under the Finance Act, Horizon Outsource has collected service tax of Rs 47 crore from the period between April 2016 and June 2017. The agency also alleged that the firm had not deposited the said amount with the government.
The firm (Horizon Outsource Solutions Private Limited) was set up in March 2011 with an authorised paid-up capital and share capital of Rs 10 crore each respectively. According to records, the firm is involved in the business of book keeping, accounting, auditing, market research, tax consultancy, public opinion and manpower outsourcing etc. While another firm (Best Computer Solutions Private Limited) was set up in March 2012 with an authorised paid-up capital and share capital of Rs 1 lakh and Rs 5 lakh respectively. The firm is involved in the business of data processing only.
Both the directors have been remanded to Judicial custody till June 2.


Today I visited Melchzedeck at his business in the town of Salgaa, 30 kilometers west of Nakuru. Three years ago Melchzedeck was working on one of the many flower farms around Salgaa. He grew unsatisfied with his job at the time and its future prospects. Melchzedeck always had an interest in photography, so, in 2009, he retired from the flower farm and purchased a camera for 4,500 Kenyan Schillings. He had decided to go into business for himself.
Three years later, he now owns his own shop selling photographs as well as cell phones, phone cases, phone chargers and other accessories. The shop has a small studio in the back of the shop where Melchzedeck is able to take portraits and family photos. He also operates a kinyozi (barbershop) within his shop in case anyone wants to have a last minute haircut before being photographed.
In addition to photographing individuals and families who come into his shop, Melchzedeck also travels to weddings, graduations, birthday parties, and various other gatherings to document the memories as he says. He is one of only two photographers in the village of Salgaa so his services are in high demand.
With his next loan, Melchzedeck plans to buy printing machine. Currently, he has to travel to Nakuru to print out the photographs that he takes. Though traveling to Nakuru takes a little over an hour round trip, it is an unnecessary burden as Melchzedeck wants to be able to photograph his customers and instantly present them the photograph. Melchzedeck is optimistic about the future of his business; he rightly views the growth of the population in Salgaa as an opportunity for more weddings, graduations, and every other celebration to be photographed.
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Huntington Ingalls Industries Increases Quarterly Dividend to $1.14 per Share
By: Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc. via GlobeNewswire News Releases
NEWPORT NEWS, Va., Nov. 03, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII) announced today that its Board of Directors has declared a quarterly cash dividend of $1.14 per share, an $0.11 increase over the $1.03 per share dividend paid in each of the prior four quarters. The $1.14 per share dividend will be payable on Dec. 11, 2020, to shareholders of record as of the close of business on Nov. 27, 2020.
Huntington Ingalls Industries is America's largest military shipbuilding company and a provider of professional services to partners in government and industry. For more than a century, HII's Newport News and Ingalls shipbuilding divisions in Virginia and Mississippi have built more ships in more ship classes than any other U.S. naval shipbuilder. HII's Technical Solutions division supports national security missions around the globe with unmanned systems, defense and federal solutions, and nuclear and environmental services. Headquartered in Newport News, Virginia, HII employs more than 42,000 people operating both domestically and internationally. For more information, visit:
HII on the web: www.huntingtoningalls.com
HII on Facebook: www.facebook.com/HuntingtonIngallsIndustries
HII on Twitter: twitter.com/hiindustries
HII on YouTube: www.youtube.com/huntingtoningalls
HII on Instagram: www.instagram.com/huntingtoningalls
Jerri Fuller Dickseski (Media)
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Dwayne Blake (Investors)
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Huntington Ingalls Industries


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Die Gedankenfreiheit ist die Freiheit des Denkens, insbesondere in weltanschaulichen und politischen Dingen.

Sie bildet die ideelle Grundlage für weitere Freiheiten wie die Meinungsfreiheit und die Religionsfreiheit.

Ursprung

Ursprünglich war die Gedankenfreiheit im Sinne der Meinungsfreiheit, also der Freiheit, seine Gedanken laut und öffentlich auszusprechen, ein Privileg der Herrschenden, das sie nur in Ausnahmefällen auch ihren Untertanen verliehen.

Ab dem Spätmittelalter begann sich hier und dort die Idee durchzusetzen, dass die Untertanen oder deren Fürsprecher das Recht auf Gedankenfreiheit wenn nötig selbständig einfordern sollten. Verkörpert finden wir diese Idee zum Beispiel in Friedrich Schillers Theaterstück Don Karlos, wo der Marquis von Posa vom absolutistisch herrschenden König Philipp II. verlangt: "Geben Sie Gedankenfreiheit". Posa bzw. Schiller vertritt hier die Auffassung, dass die Meinungsfreiheit sich aus dem Naturrecht ableiten lasse und vom Staat gewährleistet werden müsse.

Immanuel Kant behauptete in seiner Schrift Was ist Aufklärung?, dass die Meinungsfreiheit (und damit die Gedankenfreiheit) im Zeitalter des Aufgeklärten Absolutismus nicht mehr erkämpft werden müsse, da sie von Fürsten wie Friedrich II. längst gewährleistet werde. Entgegen Kants Behauptung beschnitten Friedrichs Nachfolger im Amt des preußischen Königs die Meinungsfreiheit; die Meinungsfreiheit gehört jedoch zum Wesen eines entwickelten, stabilen Rechtsstaates.

Das Ideal
Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts war diese Entwicklung im deutschen Sprachraum abgeschlossen. Das Ideal fand in Hoffmann von Fallerslebens Bearbeitung des Volkslieds Die Gedanken sind frei sein Sinnbild. All seine Aspekte fanden darin ihren adäquaten Ausdruck. Die Gedanken seien nicht nur frei, sie seien auch unergründlich ("Wer kann sie erraten?") und der Erkenntnis verschlossen ("Kein Mensch kann sie wissen"). Dem machtvollen "Ich denke, was ich will / Und was mich beglücket" ließ der Dichter sogleich die sittliche Begrenzung folgen: "Doch alles in der Still / Und wie es sich schicket". Denn wahre Stärke liege nur in der Beherrschung seiner selbst. Ebenfalls verarbeitet wurde in diesem Bild der Humor, der überall, wo um die Verwirklichung des Ideals gerungen wird, eine maßgebende Rolle spiele: "Man kann ja im Herzen / Stets lachen und scherzen". Damit kommt auch ein weiterer wichtiger Aspekt der Gedankenfreiheit zum Zuge: die Individualität.

Die Bedeutung dieses Texts für die Idee der Gedankenfreiheit ergibt sich daraus, dass das Lied im deutschen Sprachraum verschiedenen Widerstandsbewegungen als Inspiration gedient hat und von Wander- und Studentenbewegungen aller Art als Hymne benutzt wurde.

Die Situation heute

Die Allgemeine Erklärung der Menschenrechte der UN hält fest, dass jedermann Anspruch auf Gedankenfreiheit habe. Dieser Anspruch wird in allen Mitgliedstaaten des Europarats durch die Europäische Menschenrechtskonvention gewährleistet.

Siehe auch

 Gedankenverbrechen

Quellen
 Johann Nestroy: Freiheit in Krähwinkel. In: John R. P. McKenzie (Hrsg.): Sämtliche Werke. Jugend und Volk, Wien 1995.
 Karl Kraus: Nestroy und die Nachwelt. In: Untergang der Welt durch schwarze Magie. Verlag Die Fackel, Wien 1925.

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Einzelnachweise

Grundrechte
Menschenrechte


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Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don't ask for more? Great plan.
Come on, man.
We are aware of all internet traditions.
Peak wingnut was a lie.
Today's GOP: why go just far enough when too far is right there?
I'd try pessimism, but it probably wouldn't work.
Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.
A Senator Walker would also be an insult to reason, rationality, and decency.
I'm pretty sure there's only one Jack Smith.
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Constitution- Never Knew Her!
by John Cole | December 4, 2022 10:10 pm | 61 Comments
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So over the weekend, Donnie Douchebag apparently went mental and decided he did not like the Constitution and publicly stated so out loud:
This, of course, will not even be considered disqualifying, and right on cue, here is some fascist bootlicker ready to confirm what we already know:
Joyce initially declined to respond, saying he didn't know what Trump said on social media and that the public wasn't "interested in looking backwards." But Stephanopoulos pressed further, and Joyce ultimately said that Trump's comment should be taken "in context" but that it wouldn't prevent him from supporting Trump if he ends up winning the nomination.
"It's early. I think there's going to be a lot of people in the primary … [but] I will support whoever the Republican nominee is," Joyce said while noting he didn't think Trump would manage to win the 2024 Republican presidential nomination because there are "a lot of other good quality candidates out there."
"That's a remarkable statement," Stephanopoulos said. "You just said you'd support a candidate who's come out for suspending the Constitution."
Not only will this not be disqualifying, I am betting that in some quarters of the MAGA right, this will be a litmus test.
Republicans treat the constitution like they treat women. It's there to use to get what you want but when it gets in the way, you just discard it.
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Yep. Exactly the same energy.
https://twitter.com/Frumious_Boojum/status/1599220434821844995?s=20&t=uFX7cNlibwo3ORDWLD2Vd
Rules are for suckers.
columbusqueen
Fuck all of them, hard.
Nukular Biskits
Good luck on getting any of your Republican elected officials to denounce it.
Bastards.
WaPo:
GOP lawmakers largely silent after Trump suggests 'termination' of Constitution
Joyce, the chair of the Republican Governance Group, a centrist group in the House …
Republican Governance Group? Lol.
Under what authority would this group govern, once their leader has tossed the Constitution?
Never mind. They have no interest or intention of governing.
@Hitchhiker:
Also "centrist" LOL.
Yutsano
@Spanky: I'm shocked!
SHOCKED!!!
Well not that shocked.
@Steeplejack: There are no centrist Republicans. There are no moderate Republicans. It's fascist, white supremacist death cult, all the way from to bottom.
Republicans have never believed in democracy and the Constitution. They've only ever been a means to an end, namely achieving authoritarian theocracy. The only thing wrong with Iran in their eyes is that the mullahs are the wrong religion.
Trump's just finally saying — as he has so often — the quiet part out loud.
It's been said many times but Donnie Douchebag wrote terminate the Constitution which Stephanopoulos and a bunch of other press softened to suspend.
@Sasha: When someone tells you who they are, believe them the first nine-hundreth thirty-seventh time they tell you.
[GOP: "Naw, screw it, not even then!"]
I mean this is just saying the Republican quiet parts out loud. They've always operated under the premise that the parts of the Constitution that they don't like, shouldn't count and that it never should prevent them from having absolute power.
DeSantis' lawyers were forced by the court to define "woke." The lead lawyer described it as "The belief there are systemic injustices in American society and the need to address them."
This is what the whole war on CRT and banning of Black, LGBTQ etc. books. They are desperately afraid that their children will wake up to the reality of Systemic Oppression and act to dismantle it. This is also why they don't want their kids going to liberal colleges.
@jonas: Exactly.
Trump's comment should be taken "in context"
What fucking context? Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, and a fascist is just a fascist.
@UncleEbeneezer: I'm amazed he actually tried to "define" it, instead of just saying that it was very liberal and criminal and quite likely unwhite as well.
David 🦃The Establishment🥧 Koch
In 2016 Bill Maher was routinely mocked by the usual suspects for saying Dump was a danger to democracy.
@UncleEbeneezer: DeSantis' lawyers were forced by the court to define "woke." The lead lawyer described it as "The belief there are systemic injustices in American society and the need to address them."
Fuck you, you Trump trash shitstains. Get eaten by gators and then vomited back up.
Grumpy Old Railroader
"who's come out for suspending the Constitution.
What a load of BS sugarcoating. Trump said Terminate the constitution. Order of magnitude difference.
So have you ever seen a video of a snake swallowing an egg or something bigger than their head – that trick where the jaw joint detaches?
Republicans can do the same trick, when they need to swallow another Republican's lies, or bullshit, or in this case, a suggestion by a Republican that the US Constitution be terminated. They can swallow all of that. Because they're like human snakes.
@Grumpy Old Railroader: You obviously never saw Arnold Schwarznegger as The Suspenderator.
@Omnes Omnibus: What fucking context? Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, and a fascist is just a fascist.
And sometimes a fat, orange, fascist, sucker of Kremlin cock is a fat, orange, fascist, sucker of Kremlin cock.
How does he know it should be taken in "context" when he insists he doesn't know what Dump said.
Also, if Joyce didn't know what Trump said, how would he know the "context," or even if there was any?
GQP motherfuckers will nominate this megalomaniac again in 2024 and we will need to turn out in record numbers to bury him once and for all.
@Omnes Omnibus: The context is that he'll get primaried out if he goes on record attacking Dear Leader.
Nice try, Trump. Kanye is the chief fascist now.
I initially thought Kanye was nuts when he asked Trump to be his running mate, but now I think it was shrewd.
It's going to be hilarious when Joyce and Bill Barr and Mike Pence and Chris Christie are forced to admit that they'll vote for Ye instead of Joe Biden.
@Baud:
And it will be even funnier when Ye wins.
@Baud: That'd be pretty funny, but … doubt it. White Supremacists ain't gonna vote for Ye.
a facistnista
scav
@Chetan Murthy: Just like they're not turning out for Walker?
Joyce initially declined to respond, saying he didn't know what Trump said on social media and that the public wasn't "interested in looking backwards." But Stephanopoulos pressed further
Now, what kind of…………….WOKE behavior is that?
I ask you.
@scav: It's one thing to vote for a Senator who's obviously not all there, surely he'll take his orders from his "betters". It's another thing to vote for a President.
@Chetan Murthy: That'd be pretty funny, but … doubt it. Trump trash White Supremacists ain't gonna vote for Ye.
It's there to use to get what you want but when it gets in the way, you just discard it.
They use it as a shitty, shallow status marker. When it serves them, they pretend to care about it, and try to shame others as insufficiently American. It's an attempt at a flex.
Embir
Is the oath the Oath Keepers are all about the oath to the Constitution that the military takes? Am I missing something?
Here is Mr. Rhodes in 2008 describing the rationale for the organization "It' (a full-blown totalitarian police state) cannot happen here if the majority of police and soldiers obey their oaths to defend the Constitution and refuse to enforce the unconstitutional edicts of the 'Leader'."[41]
@Chetan Murthy: See also GW Bush. I'm just arguing against easy confidence as to how low they won't go.
Mutated outgrowth of the Goldwater doctrine.
"Extremism in defense of Dolt 45 is no vice. Moderation in pursuit of naked power is no virtue."
I'm just starin' at y'all trying to put any kind of logic in the heads of Trump voters.
Alison Rose
I fucking hate living in this timeline.
@scav: I'm just sayin': No way a Black man will be the GrOPer presidential nominee. Not happenin'.
OK, Stephanopoulos did a couple follow ups. But Fail-potus didn't say he'd 'suspend' the Constitution, He said it should be terminated.
I really think there's something in the wiring of many in the press that they cannot actually hear and read the literal words this man (and many other Republicans) say. It's ridiculous. Words mean the things people say! Tr**p in particular.
As usual, the MSM disgraced themselves by burying this story.
This wasn't even the third story mentioned during CBS radio's top of the hour World News Roundup in the early afternoon.
CNN's Inside Politics didn't cover Trump's insane suggestion until the middle of their program following a segment about Biden's proposal to change the Democratic primary calendar.
Later in the day, I tuned in to NPR's All Things Considered which led off its broadcast with the proposed change to the Democratic primary calendar. This was followed by a segment about the musical score for the latest film in the Black Panther franchise. At this point, I tuned out of NPR because I don't give a fuck about some stupid musical score when our goddamn house is still on fire.
Trump is saying the quiet part out loud. He's proving once again that he's a clear and present danger to our our republic and our mainstream news outlets don't give a flying fuck.
What goddamn difference does it make when Iowa and NH residents cast their primary votes if one of the likely nominees openly suggests gutting the Constitution?
They aren't taking him seriously. A former president of the United States who has announced his candidacy for a 2nd term is demanding to terminate the constitution and his party says nothing.
The scandal is the media and we should be talking nothing about them in every social media outlet.
Mr. Bemused Senior
@Citizen Alan:
It's fascist, white supremacist death cult, all the way from to bottom.
There is no bottom.
Amir Khalid
@Kelly:
Arnold Schwarzenegger is a moderate, as Republicans go. I doubt he would support a call to terminate the US Constitution.
More seriously, I was struck by how overtly selfish Trump's demand is. And how nonsensical: if there is no Constitution, who — if anyone — will have the power to declare him POTUS?
@Mike in NC: Oh, we will!!! We weren't fooled 2020, and we sure won't be fooled in 2024! I predict another record breaking Democratic voting record.
Gary K
This is just after a piece in the WaPo gave David Joyce a tongue bath as a "moderate."
prostratedragon
@Chetan Murthy:  Neither are black people. The nation might even get a taste of how we sound when y'all aren't listening.
Lacuna Synecdoche
I got this message instead of the Trump truthsocial embed:
Firefox Can't Open This Page
To protect your security, truthsocial.com will not allow Firefox to display the page if another site has embedded it. To see this page, you need to open it in a new window.
Yeah, that's not gonna happen.
Opening a Truth Social page seems like the digital equivalent of sticking your dick in a fleshlight that's been marinating in a brine of syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, and herpes for the past nine and a half months – i.e., ever since Truth Social (aka Prevarication Personal) launched in February 2022.
P.S. Thank you, Firefox!
@Amir Khalid:
who — if anyone — will have the power to declare him POTUS?
Steve Harvey? (video)
… if there is no Constitution, who — if anyone — will have the power to declare him [Trump] POTUS?
Isn't it obvious?
The only person who could declare Trump president, the only natural god-given leader of the American people with the destined authority to declare Trump president is (drumroll) … Trump himself!
Who else could it possibly be?
(Ba-dup bump, cymbal hiss)
The Republicans haven't *always* been like this, but they've been sliding downhill since Garfield.
@Steeplejack: Also, if Joyce didn't know what Trump said, how would he know the "context," or even if there was any?
A fine question. You've just torpedoed your career in the MSM.
The go-to response to "Wellllll, I don't know what he said" should be "I just told you what he said." Asking for context would be fair, but acting like the statement doesn't exist because you didn't see it is a ridiculous thing for interviewers to allow.
Dems should start calling the GQP 'un-American.' Sure, that will rattle the MSM's teacups and have them clutching their pearls, but dammit, the Dems can back this up.
There's no fucking daylight in between the United States of America as we've known it for the past two-plus centuries, and our Constitution. If you are willing to put up with leaders who advocate terminating the motherfucking Constitution, then you don't belong in our government, and you're a fucking traitor. That's what the Dems should be saying.
@Mimi: Don't forget how the American ("Know Nothing") Party dissolved itself in 1860 and its numerous Northern members joined the new Republican Party.
The ideological descendents of the "Know Nothings" remain a powerful element in the Republican Party to this day. Their alliance with the descendents of the 1860 Breckinridge Democrats now dominates that party.
It's on brand that ABC describes Joyce as the chair of "a centrist group in the House", in the same article that he's shrugging off TFG demanding we suspend the Constitution.
RevRick
@Citizen Alan: You got that right! When you read Umberto Eco's 1995 essay on Ur-Fascism, the GOP checks off all the boxes on the fascist ticket.
Fascism seems to recur on a 60-80 year cycle in the modern world, mainly in response to shifts that unsettled the old order. The South kicked it off in the 1850s with increasingly virulent defenses of slavery and white supremacy, then it reappeared in the 1920s here with a racist backlash to immigration, and overseas in Germany, Italy, and Japan. And now it's rearing its ugly head here, and overseas in Russia, India, Iran, and Saudi Arabia.
Of course, our Southern brand never really disappeared, living on as Jim Crow and the white supremacy of Christian Nationalism.
artem1s
I wonder how much of this is designed to force the other 1/6 conspirators to reaffirm their loyalty to TFG (McCarthy, Graham, etc). Garland appointing the Special Prosecutor has completely undone him. Now that he knows his SCOTUS butt buddies won't save his ass, he's just flat out calling for the GOP to say the next thing out loud – they never did intend to uphold their oaths and only care about the Constitution when they can manipulate the system to enrich themselves and retain power.
tokyokie
@Amir Khalid:
More seriously, I was struck by how overtly selfish Trump's demand is.
It's worse than that. tfg, who has spent his entire life avoiding the consequences of his unceasingly vile conduct through wealth (real and supposed), prevarication, and abuse of process, has now determined that if the only way for him to continue to do so is to terminate the country's foundational legal document, then nearly a quarter-millennium of legal tradition must fall, thus rendering the lives of millions of people who have gone before him meaningless, all for the preservation of his ego. He is, literally, the worst person this country has ever produce.
(Yes, I know this is way late to the thread, but I haven't heard it expressed in such terms and I needed to get it off my chest.)


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Theft at Radheshyam temple Ulao. Ashta Dhatu sculpture stolen.
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Edmund Francis Hughes (born 3 October 1968) is a British Conservative Party politician who served in the Second Johnson ministry as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Housing and Rough Sleeping from 2021 to 2022. He has also been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Walsall North since 2017.

He was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Housing and Rough Sleeping in January 2021, due to the resignation of Kelly Tolhurst.

Early life and career
Hughes was born on 3 October 1968 in Birmingham, England. His father was a bus driver and his mother was a cleaner. He has five brothers and attended Handsworth Grammar School (now King Edward VI Handsworth Grammar School for Boys). Hughes studied civil engineering at the University of Glamorgan.

He was a director of YMCA Birmingham for development and asset management from 2014 to 2017, and assistant chief executive in 2017. He was a trustee of the Walsall Wood Allotment Charity, which helps people in financial need. Hughes served on the West Midlands Police Authority and was chairman of Walsall Housing Group from 2016 until June 2018.

He stood for the Pheasey ward on Walsall Council in 1998, but was unsuccessful. He was, however, elected as a councillor for the Hatherton Rushall ward on Walsall Council in 1999, gaining the seat from Labour, until 2004 when boundary changes occurred and he was elected a councillor for Streetly ward. He has held several positions on the council including the decision-making cabinet, chairman of Children's Services Scrutiny and Audit committees. He left the council in 2018. He stood unsuccessfully for MP of Birmingham Hall Green in 2005.

Parliamentary career

Hughes was elected the MP for Walsall North at the 2017 general election, where he unseated the sitting veteran Labour Party MP David Winnick. Winnick, aged 83 at the time, had held the seat for the previous 38 years, since the 1979 general election.

Hughes introduced a Ten Minute Rule bill into the House of Commons to improve tenant safety around carbon monoxide poisoning. It received a first reading on 13 September 2017.

Hughes spoke in the Commons during a debate on NHS pay in September 2017, stating that the starting salary for a newly qualified nurse was higher than that of the average constituent of Walsall North, in defending not lifting a below inflation cap of 1% on public-sector pay increases. He said it was his job to stick up for everyone, not just people in the public sector. Despite his intervention, the opposition motion to lift the cap was passed. The Conservative Government subsequently announced, in March 2018, that they would end the cap on NHS salaries.

Hughes has campaigned for more front line police on the streets and raised the issue with Theresa May in the House of Commons.

He is a supporter of Brexit, campaigning for a leave vote, and was one of 62 Conservative MPs who wrote to the Prime Minister urging support for her Lancaster House speech.

Since being elected in June 2017 Hughes had campaigned for funding for a new A&E department at Walsall Manor Hospital, including raising the issue with the Prime Minister at PMQs.  Funding of £36m was eventually allocated by the Department for Health & Social Care in December 2018.

Hughes was a member of the Consolidation Bills Committee and the Women & Equalities Select Committee.

Hughes was made a Parliamentary Private Secretary to the ministerial team of the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government in June 2018. During his time as PPS at MHLG Hughes was responsible for liaising with parliamentary colleagues in respect of revisions to the National Planning Policy Framework which was subsequently published in July 2018. He subsequently moved with Dominic Raab to the Department for Exiting the European Union. He resigned to vote against the Withdrawal Agreement on 15 January 2019. From February 2020 to January 2021, he was an Assistant Whip.

As chair of the APPG for Excellence in the Built Environment Hughes chaired the committee's inquiry into the need for a New Homes Ombudsman which was published in June 2018. In October 2018 the government announced that there will be a New Homes Ombudsman – "a watchdog that will champion homebuyers, protect their interests and hold developers to account."

He joined the government in January 2021, being appointed as the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Housing and Rough Sleeping at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government due to the resignation of Kelly Tolhurst.

Hughes endorsed Kemi Badenoch during the July 2022 Conservative Party leadership election. He spoke at her campaign launch event held on 12 July.

Other political work
Hughes works with libertarian Conservative think tank Freer UK, with whom he released a report on blockchain technologies, advocating that the UK government appoint a Chief Blockchain Officer.

Personal life
He married Clare in 2014. Hughes has a son and daughter from a previous marriage. His brother Des is a Labour councillor.

Hughes is an Aston Villa FC fan and a Catholic.

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Earlier today I Googled "Great Literary Couples" to see what might turn up, and I wasn't in the least bit surprised in the results. A lot of Jane Austen. Like a lot. I have a little bit of a problem with this, and rather than spend time going into all the reasons why that is, I thought it might be better to focus instead on Great Literary Couples worth talking about.
So in honor of Valentine's Day, I took a poll here at the Read Furiously Offices and compiled the list of Literary Couples We Love. Presented to you in no real order.
Though I'm sure most of the world has read this book already, I won't go into spoilers because this book is too good to ever spoil. And with the movie soon coming out, it's worth noting this is a couple that people are going to be talking about a lot.
Though DC Comics NEW 52 might not currently think so, there probably isn't a more important relationship in all of comics than Superman/Clark Kent and Lois Lane. I could go on for a while about all the reasons (and maybe one day I'll do a post dedicated entirely to that), but for now we can just say that Superman wouldn't be the legend he is (both in the comic and the real world) without Lois Lane.
This is the only couple on the list that isn't fictional, but they're still worth including because when reading Sedaris' work and the way he talks about their relationship, it's hard not to long for a partner like Hugh.
The relationship that inspired a million YA novels. They're not the most uplifting of couples out there, but the impact they've had is undeniable.
I know who you are, Sam. I know I'm quiet... and, and I should speak more. But if you knew the things that were in my head most of the time, you'd know what I really meant. How, how much we're alike and, and how we've been through things... and you're not small. You're beautiful.
It's a story of finding the one you love right under your nose. It's a story of loving someone so much that initially they annoy the hell out of you. It's Neil Gaiman. 'Nuff said.
And Dirk got his Duck. In the magical world of LA, there's probably nothing more magical tan the relationship between Duck and Dirk.
Yes, I'm ending our list with two characters who are directly based off of Jane Austen characters, yet Helen Fielding manages to take these characters and breath life into them, make them endearing enough that you can overlook their inspiration. Plus, what woman doesn't like to be told someone likes them just the way they are.
Thinking in terms of structure, the ending should be considered one of the best parts of a story. It's the payoff, the moment when all the strife and conflict our characters have had to endured finally comes to a head. We get to see the people they've become, the new versions of themselves crafted by the events they undertook. From the moment we begin a book, it's what everything is leading to, and really we should be excited when that moment finally arrives. Yet often times it's the moment many of us dread.
I speak from personal experience on this, of course. It took me two years before I worked up enough nerve to finish reading Y: The Last Man. And volumes eleven and twelve of DMZ are so far down on my reading pile, it'd be an actual chore just to get them out. Even though I'm very much looking forward to reading them, I'm just not ready for the final story from the war-zone that is New York City to be told. So instead, every time I go to pick up a new book to read, I'll opt for something where the stakes aren't as high as finality.
This isn't a phenomenon specific to book series either. How many other furious readers out there have gotten so wrapped up in a book they've felt the need to set it aside with just a few chapters left, let it sit there on their night stand, and come up with excuse after excuse to never finish it. Sometimes we may even purchase books we're so excited to read we don't start for fear of when we'll finish it (note Boxers and Saints and King City on the pile as well, I want/don't want to read them so badly).
There's an anxiety that comes with the end of a book, worrying whether the author will drop the ball on an ending and leave you disappointed. There are so many things that could go wrong with an ending (Let's be honest, there's nothing worse than when the writer throws in a poorly executed Deus Ex Machina just to tie things up). That chance the characters won't get the happy ending you think they deserve. Or even if they do, the knowledge that you'll be saying goodbye to these people you've let into your life once you turn the final page. It can be like watching your best friend pull away, knowing it's the last time you'll ever see them.
We want to go on these journeys with these characters, and never want them to end. It's why there will likely never be a final issue of Superman, or a last Babysitters Club book, or why - even after Doyle finished his last Sherlock Holmes story - his exploits continue to be told by countless other authors, even today.
These are stories we connect with, characters we adopt into our lives. It's not something for which you can necessarily be blamed. After all, if the story doesn't end, then at least there's the potential for more. And sometimes that can be better than reaching the bittersweet parting we encounter upon the last page of a story.
Yet really all we're doing is denying ourselves the pleasure that comes from closure. A story isn't a story without an ending, even if it's only the point we exit the narrative. But when we do this, all we're doing is creating an artificial end that will never offer any of the closure we want. We have potential, potential that the story will go on, that there is so much more for the characters to do. But that's all it will ever be, and it will never be the same as the real ending (good or bad).
So in celebration of endings, I set out this week to uncover those last two volumes of DMZ and finally finish the story of Matty Roth and the Free States. And I'm inviting the rest of you furious readers out there to join in and finally finish that book you've been putting off for far too long.


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Monday, November 27, 2017 11:17 AM EST
Buffalo Wild Wings (BWLD) was downgraded to Neutral from Buy at UBS following reports that Roark Capital has sweetened its bid for the company and a report that more than one potential bidder is considering the company.
ROARK'S SWEETENED BID: According to a report from Bloomberg, people familiar with the matter said Roark Capital, which owns Arby's and Carl's Jr., has sweetened its bid for Buffalo Wild Wings to about $155 per share. The new all-cash offer would value Buffalo Wild Wings at nearly $2.4B, the report said. Discussions between the two sides started in the past few days are "ongoing," the people added, noting that it is not certain a deal will be reached. Earlier this month, CNBC said Roark made an offer of over $150 per share, or more than $2.3B.
WHAT'S NOTABLE: Buffalo Wild Wings lost a proxy fight with activist Marcato Capital Management, which held a 6.4% stake in the company as of September 30, in June. After the proxy contest ended, Buffalo Wild Wings' chief executive officer Sally Smith said she would retire by the end of the year. The company has yet to name her successor. Roark Capital, which has investments in chains such as Cinnabon, Carvel and Auntie Anne's, earlier this year backed an unsuccessful attempt to buy Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen, which instead sold to Restaurant Brands International (QSR) for about $1.8B.
UBS MOVING TO THE SIDELINES: UBS analyst Dennis Geiger downgraded Buffalo Wild Wings to Neutral from Buy, and said the risk/reward is more balanced following the recent share rally fueled by Roark's bid for the company and another recent report that said more than one potential bidder is looking at buying the company. Without visibility into the likelihood of a takeout, it's difficult to argue for a much higher valuation, Geiger said. The analyst also said that while Roark's experience could support "better opportunities" in terms of a new CEO and management team, as well as improving operations, he believes that Buffalo Wild Wings could either reject the bid or seek a higher offer. Stifel analyst Chris O'Cull said earlier this month that an acquisition of Buffalo Wild Wings by Roark could "provide an attractive exit for Marcato Capital."
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BARBIE IN THE PINK SHOES (Blu-ray combo) Next new-to-Blu round of Disney titles: June 11
LINCOLN (4-Disc Blu-ray combo)
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Rated PG-13 for intense war violence, carnage, and brief strong language
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Steven Spielberg's Lincoln is both a sprawling character study and a behind-the-scenes story of how the United States came to abolish slavery. Rated PG-13, the film contains really just three scenes that are too graphic for younger children: the opening Civil War battle sequence, which is extremely violent; a scene mid-point where Robert Lincoln refuses to go inside a hospital with his father, but witnesses something far worse than wounded soldiers outside; and a scene near the end when Lincoln rides a horse through a battlefield filled with dead soldiers.
If you shield young ones from those scenes, and maybe plug their ears for the punch line of a story involving a picture of George Washington hanging in a bathroom, they'd be able to watch Lincoln—though I can't imagine any of them lasting very long. For one thing, Lincoln is two and a half hours long, and that's enough to challenge the attention span of even the most dedicated young history buff. Lincoln is also a slow-moving dialogue- and character-driven film that's as leisurely paced and deliberate as our 16th President reportedly was in everything. Meanwhile, the parts that adults will find most interesting—the backdoor politicking, bribery, threats, and coercion that were used to gain a voting majority—will be too complicated for young children to grasp.
But children, like the adults, may be fascinated by the historical details that Spielberg includes, for Lincoln oozes authenticity. Then there's Daniel Day-Lewis's Oscar-winning performance. The hair and make-up people don't get enough credit for the transformation, but I absolutely love Day-Lewis's interpretation.
Biographers and historians have found documents that tell us Lincoln was scholarly but unpretentious, a "rustic" who loved a good story and dirty joke as much as the next person, someone who was deliberate in his speaking, and who had an uncommonly high-pitched voice. In the last department, Day-Lewis only manages to climb into the same register as folksy character actor Walter Brennan, but he nails everything else. And besides, go too high and you'd have Lincoln on helium. But Spielberg's Lincoln gives us the fullest portrait of the man on the five dollar bill that Hollywood has produced.
Lincoln's second wife, Mary (Sally Field), was institutionalized at one point, and Lincoln himself suffered from what today would be called depression. Those emotional landscapes are supported by dark or dimly lit interior shots, and the cinematography incorporates plenty of smoke and haze in the exteriors as well, to emphasize the war and the dark period that the nation was enduring.
Of the many actors who turn in fine performances, the ones who stand out are Tommy Lee Jones as abolitionist Thaddeus Stevens, Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the President's son, David Strathairn as Secretary of State William Seward, and James Spader as a shady political backroom dealer.
"Do you think we choose the times into which we are born?" Lincoln asks. "Or do we fit the times we are born into?"
Lincoln was fascinated by philosophical inquiry and Spielberg's film captures that as much as any other aspect. Pay attention as you watch, because there are plenty more lessons here than the story of how the 13th Amendment was adopted. But watch this when you're feeling alert and refreshed—otherwise, the pacing and sheer length will be too much, even for older children and adults. Neither one of our children made it all the way through this film.


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A P-type ATPase required for rice blast disease and induction of host resistance
Martin J. Gilbert1,
Christopher R. Thornton1,
Gavin E. Wakley1 &
Nicholas J. Talbot1
Nature volume 440, pages 535–539 (2006)Cite this article
To cause diseases in plants, pathogenic microorganisms have evolved mechanisms to deliver proteins directly into plant cells, where they suppress plant defences and facilitate tissue invasion1,2,3. How plant pathogenic fungi, which cause many of the world's most serious plant diseases, deliver proteins during plant infection is currently unknown. Here we report the characterization of a P-type ATPase-encoding gene, MgAPT2, in the economically important rice blast pathogen Magnaporthe grisea, which is required for exocytosis during plant infection. Targeted gene replacement showed that MgAPT2 is required for both foliar and root infection by the fungus, and for the rapid induction of host defence responses in an incompatible reaction. ΔMgapt2 mutants are impaired in the secretion of a range of extracellular enzymes and accumulate abnormal Golgi-like cisternae. However, the loss of MgAPT2 does not significantly affect hyphal growth or sporulation, indicating that the establishment of rice blast disease involves the use of MgApt2-dependent exocytotic processes that operate during plant infection.
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Figure 1: Characteristics of M. grisea APT2.
Figure 2: Characterization of ΔMgapt2 mutants.
Figure 3: Subcellular co-localization of MgApt2 and MgKtr1 Golgi protein.
Figure 4: ΔMgapt2 mutants are impaired in secretion and induction of rice defence responses.
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We thank C. Hawes and B. Martin for cryofixation and freeze substitution work, G.-L. Wang for supply of IR-68 seeds and T. Graham for supplying the BY4739, PFY3273A and DS94 yeast APT mutants. This study was supported by a grant to N.J.T. from the Biological Sciences and Biotechnology Research Council (BBSRC). Author Contributions Experimental work and data analysis were performed by M.J.G. and N.J.T. C.R.T. performed all immunological work and associated data analysis. G.E.W. performed electron microscopy.
School of Biosciences, University of Exeter, Washington Singer Laboratories, Perry Road, Exeter, EX4 4QG, UK
Martin J. Gilbert, Christopher R. Thornton, Gavin E. Wakley & Nicholas J. Talbot
Martin J. Gilbert
Christopher R. Thornton
Gavin E. Wakley
Nicholas J. Talbot
Correspondence to Nicholas J. Talbot.
Reprints and permissions information is available at npg.nature.com/reprintsandpermissions. The authors declare no competing financial interests.
Supplementary Figure 1.
Yeast complementation assay showing the Magnaporthe APT2 gene is unable to complement the cold sensitive phenotype of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae Δdrs2 mutant. (PDF 697 kb)
Influence of MgAPT2(p) expression on aminophospholipid internalisation in intact yeast cells. MgAPT2(p) is unable to restore the ability of drs2Δ to internalize phosphatidylserine. (PDF 193 kb)
Generation and virulence of ΔMgapt2 mutants. Targeted gene replacement strategy showing the generation of 6 gene replacement transformants. Subsequent plant infection assays and epidermal penetration assays show a significant reduction of ΔMgapt2 mutants to cause rice blast disease. (PDF 176 kb)
Electron micrographs showing the accumulation of Berkeley bodies in the yeast drs2Δ mutant. (PDF 603 kb)
The loss of MgAPT2 has no affect on endocytosis. Wild type and ΔMgapt2 conidia were stained with FM4-64 and show no significant difference in uptake kinetics. (PDF 2117 kb)
The ΔMgapt2 mutant is impaired in its ability to secrete α-amylase. Using an anti-α-amylase antibody, immunogold experiments were conducted. The resulting electron micrographs show ΔMgapt2 is severely reduced in α-amylase secretion. (PDF 1315 kb)
Plate assay showing ΔMgapt2 mutants are not compromised in their ability to secrete the enzyme trehalase. (PDF 2506 kb)
Supplementary Table 1.
Amino acid similarity and identity of MgAPT2 and the yeast aminophospholipid translocases. (PDF 42 kb)
Table showing the ability of the ΔMgapt2 mutant to grow on single carbon sources. (PDF 46 kb)
Summary of Magnaporthe strains used in the study. (PDF 42 kb)
Summary of yeast strains used in the study. (PDF 42 kb)
Supplementary Methods.
Comprehensive and detailed explanation of protocols used in the study together with references. (PDF 145 kb)
Gilbert, M., Thornton, C., Wakley, G. et al. A P-type ATPase required for rice blast disease and induction of host resistance. Nature 440, 535–539 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature04567
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Editorial Summary
Blast damage
Research on plant diseases in recent years has shown that bacterial pathogens use specialized secretion systems to deliver proteins directly into plant cells, where they suppress plant defences and facilitate tissue invasion. Now a similar system has been discovered in the fungal pathogen Magnaporthe grisea, the cause of rice blast disease. The fungus produces an ATPase that is essential for plant tissue colonization: the enzyme is one of a family of aminophospholipid translocases that appears to regulate membrane characteristics important to fungal pathogens, both for infection-related morphogenesis and for the efficient delivery of virulence-related proteins. Rice blast is a significant problem and control strategies are needed urgently, so the proteins involved in the infection process will be of interest as possible fungicide targets.


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This paper argues that surface-level analysis of political argument fails to explain the effectiveness of ideological enthymemes, particularly within the context of presidential debates. This paper uses the first presidential debate of the 2012 election as a case study for the use of "Obamacare" as an ideological enthymeme. The choice of a terminological system limits and shapes the argumentative choices afforded the candidate. Presidential debates provide a unique context within which to examine the interaction of ideological constraints and argument due to their relatively committed and ideologically homogenous audiences.
What the legislature did not say
Author(s): Damiano Canale and Giovanni Tuzet
https://doi.org/10.1075/jaic.5.3.02can
The paper is about the uses of the argument from legislative counterfactual intention, in the field of legal interpretation and argumentation. After presenting the argument from intention in general, it distinguishes the varities of the argument from counterfactual legislative intention and discusses their justification conditions.
The Katyń court case
Author(s): Anna Jopek-Bosiacka
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This paper examines the argumentation in the case Janowiec and Others vs. Russia, heard before the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg (ECtHR, or Court), primarily based on the hearings with additional references to the two judgments issued. The proffered analysis focuses on the types and forms of argumentation used in the counsels' oral arguments, as well as their rhetorical strategies and tactics, as based on Douglas Walton's argumentation schemes and Stephen Toulmin's model of argumentation. The starting point of the analyzed dispute is the verbal classification of the subject of the dispute, which reflects the different historical perspectives in the narratives about the Katyń crime, as related by the litigating parties and the court. The political and media context of this dispute in the Polish, Russian, and international public space is also considered.
Fair and unfair strategies in public controversies
Author(s): Jan Albert van Laar and Erik C.W. Krabbe
https://doi.org/10.1075/jaic.5.3.04kra
Contemporary theory of argumentation offers many insights about the ways in which, in the context of a public controversy, arguers should ideally present their arguments and criticize those of their opponents. We also know that in practice not all works out according to the ideal patterns: numerous kinds of derailments (fallacies) are an object of study for argumentation theorists. But how about the use of unfair strategies vis-à-vis one's opponents? What if it is not a matter of occasional derailments but of one party's systematic refusal to take other parties seriously? What if one party continually forgoes any form of critical testing and instead resorts to threats or blackmail? Can this be countered by the tools of reason? Or should one pay one's opponent back in the same coin? To gain some grasp of these issues, we describe a number of strategies used in the public controversy about induced earthquakes in Groningen. We check whether these strategies are fair, i.e. balanced, transparent, and tolerant. We also investigate the effects of the choice for a particular kind of strategy. It appears that, in circumstances, choosing a fair strategy may be detrimental for resolving the controversy and choosing an unfair one beneficial. Following up ideas from social psychology and political science, we formulate some guidelines for the choice of strategies. At the end, we stress the importance — especially for those whose opinions carry little weight — of having a society in which the knowledge and skills needed for assessing the fairness of strategies are widespread.
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Deliberation digitized: Designing disagreement space through communication-information services
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Adult as a source of expert opinion in child's argumentation during family mealtime conversations
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Debating multiple positions in multi-party online deliberation: Sides, positions, and cases
Author(s): Marcin Lewiński
Attachment style, serial argument, and taking conflict personally
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Arguing with oneself
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Teaching argumentation theory to doctors: Why and what
Author(s): Sara Rubinelli and Claudia Zanini
Argumentation in the context of mediation activity
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Jean Louis Burckhardt was born in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1784. He travelled to London when he was 22 and shortly after came under the wing of the Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior Parts of Africa, which offered him the mission of locating the source of the River Niger. Burckhardt accepted. Then, as now, Egypt was the gateway into Africa, and so he devised a plan to familiarize himself with Islam and Arab culture in preparation for the expedition. Journeys into the Middle East at this time were extremely dangerous: the territory was virtually unknown and local people (few of whom had ever seen Europeans) were engaged in continuous tribal skirmishing and were highly suspicious of outsiders. While still in England, Burckhardt embarked on crash courses in Arabic, astronomy and medicine, and took to sleeping on the ground and eating nothing but vegetables to toughen himself up.
On his arrival in Aleppo in 1809, locals immediately questioned him about his strange accent. Burckhardt told his cover story: that he was a Muslim trader from India and his mother tongue wasn't Arabic but Hindustani. Suspicion persisted, and he was pressed to say something in Hindustani, whereupon he let loose a volley of fluent Swiss-German – which seemed to satisfy the doubters. Burckhardt spent over two years in Aleppo, adopting local customs, taking the name Sheikh Ibrahim ibn Abdallah, perfecting his Arabic and becoming an expert in Quranic law.
In 1812, Burckhardt set off for Cairo, recording everything that he saw in a secret journal: had he been found out, no doubt he would have been killed as a spy. Around Karak, he heard the locals talking of an ancient city locked away in the heart of an impenetrable mountain. His curiosity was aroused, but there was no way he could openly declare an interest without bringing suspicion onto himself: a genuine devotee of Islam would know that such ruins were the work of infidels and of no concern. Burckhardt made up a story that he had vowed to sacrifice a goat at the shrine of the Prophet Aaron atop Jabal Haroun near the ruins: an unimpeachably honourable motive for pressing on.
As he and his guide approached Wadi Musa (then known by its old name of Elji), they were stopped by the Liyathneh tribe, camped near Ain Musa, who tried to persuade them to sacrifice their goat there and then, with the white shrine in plain view on the distant summit. But Sheikh Ibrahim insisted on going on, much to the irritation of his guide. They went down the steep hill, on into the Siq, and arrived at the Treasury. Burckhardt somehow managed to make detailed notes and a sketch of the facade, and they continued throughout the city in this way, Burckhardt writing and sketching in secret, his guide becoming ever more suspicious. They reached the foot of Jabal Haroun as dusk was falling, and Burckhardt finally submitted to his guide's insistence that they make the sacrifice and turn back.
Burckhardt's adventures continued: he arrived in Cairo to prepare for his great African expedition, but quickly got tangled in bureaucracy. In the meantime he travelled deep into Nubia, crossed the Red Sea to Jeddah (and was probably the first Christian ever to enter Mecca, where his Quranic learning deeply impressed the city's religious judge), and explored Sinai, but back in Egypt in 1817, he contracted dysentery and died in eleven days, with his journey to the Niger not even begun. All Burckhardt's journals were published after his death, Travels in Nubia and Travels in Arabia overshadowed by the news of his rediscovery of Petra, published in 1822 in Travels in Syria and the Holy Land. His grave, bearing his pseudonym Sheikh Ibrahim, is visitable in a Muslim cemetery in Cairo. Its existence shows that, far from being simply a game or ploy, Burckhardt's alter ego took on a genuine life of its own.
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Genetic algorithm searches based on a cluster expansion model are performed to search for stable phases of Fe-V-Si ternary. We identify a new thermodynamically, dynamically and mechanically stable ternary phase of Fe5V2Si with 2 formula units in a tetragonal unit cell. The formation energy of this new ternary phase is -36.9 meV/atom below the current ternary convex hull. The magnetic moment of Fe in the new structure varies from -0.30-2.52 mu(B) depending strongly on the number of Fe nearest neighbors. The total magnetic moment is 10.44 mu(B)/unit cell for new Fe5V2Si structure and the system is ordinarily metallic. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.


Hello Seattle paddlers. I mostly boat in the Portland area, but am looking forward to exploring the goods up where you are. I paddle mostly kayak and mostly at the class III and IV level, but variations may occur.