For Y. A. of Lodi, California—"Y" is the name he goes by—football has always been his passion. From watching the Chicago Bears on TV as a little boy, to attending games across the U.S. with his wife and three kids, Y's love for the sport is a banner he happily waves. "We all wear our Bears stuff. We're proud," he says.
Y's passion has led to some pretty remarkable bucket list accomplishments. Not only did Y attend Super Bowl XLI (2007) to watch the Bears play, he has attended a football game at almost every stadium in America. "I have five stadiums left on my bucket list. I've been very fortunate to be able to do this," Y says.
But Y's greatest accomplishment? Creating his own "stadium" at home for his family to spend time together. When it was time to find a place for Y's parents to retire, he found a vineyard in the country and began developing plans for a home that would include a private living space for his parents as well as a large pool and entertainment area for family and friends. "It's been a gathering for all of us, and all the parents know it's a safe place that the kids can hang out and have clean fun," Y says, as he reminisced over the graduations and prom parties they've had over the years.
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Quiet as ceasefire begins in south Syria: monitor
9 July 2017, 6:00 am
Beirut (AFP) - A ceasefire in southern Syria brokered by the United States, Russia and Jordan began at noon local time on Sunday, with a monitor reporting quiet in three southern provinces.
The ceasefire was announced on Friday by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and covers Daraa, Quneitra and Sweida provinces.
"The main fronts in the three provinces between regime forces and opposition factions have seen a cessation of hostilities and shelling since this morning, with the exception of a few scattered shells fired on Daraa city before noon," said Rami Abdel Rahman, director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor.
The Syrian regime had already announced its own unilateral ceasefire on Monday but fighting had continued on frontlines in the three provinces.
There has been no official comment from Syria's government on the announcement, and there was no mention of the ceasefire on state television's noon news bulletin.
The Al-Watan newspaper, which is close to the regime, quoted the head of Syria's parliamentary Foreign Relations Committee suggesting that the agreement was negotiated in consultation with Damascus.
"No details on the agreement were presented, but the Syrian state has background on it," the newspaper quoted Boutros Marjana as saying.
"The final word on adding southern Syria to the 'de-escalation' zones belongs to the Syrian state, and there is coordination with Russia on that," he added.
The ceasefire in southern Syria comes in the wake of a deal inked in the Kazakh capital Astana in May between regime allies Russia and Iran and rebel backer Turkey to set up four "de-escalation" zones.
One of the mooted zones was in southern Syria, but the agreement has yet to go into effect as the three sides try to agree how the zones will be monitored.
On Friday, before the ceasefire deal was announced, a delegation of opposition factions that has attended talks in Astana expressed opposition to any ceasefire for just one part of the country.
In a statement, the factions said they were concerned about "secret meetings and understandings between Russia, Jordan and America on a deal for the south of Syria, separate from the north."
Such an agreement "would divide Syria, as well as the delegation and the opposition, in two."
The ceasefire begins on the eve of fresh peace talks in Geneva scheduled to begin on Monday.
Expectations for the seventh round of UN-sponsored talks are low, but a UN official said Saturday that the ceasefire deal created positive momentum.
"It helps create a suitable atmosphere for the talks, and we will see that on Monday," said Ramzi Ezzedine Ramzi, deputy to UN Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura.
Tongan icon launches fundraising effort
The first aircraft carrying humanitarian supplies has arrived in Tonga, five days after the South Pacific island nation was hit by a volcanic eruption and tsunami that devastated communities and spoiled drinking water.A Royal New Zealand Air Force C-130 Hercules landed in Tonga's Fua'amotu International Airport on Thursday, a defence spokesperson said, after a blanket of volcanic ash was cleared off the runway.
COVID isolation time won't be reduced: PM
Isolation periods for COVID-positive patients won't be reduced, following discussions on workforce constraints at the latest national cabinet meeting.The prime minister, along with state and territory leaders, agreed the seven-day isolation period won't be lowered further to five days, as has been done in other countries.
Border backflip leaves WA further isolated
West Australians face being trapped indefinitely within their own state after Premier Mark McGowan broke his promise to reopen the state's borders next month.Mr McGowan announced the extraordinary backflip during a late-night press conference on Thursday, saying WA's hard borders will remain in place indefinitely.
Breivik 'as dangerous now as a decade ago'
Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik remains just as likely to commit acts of violence today as he was a decade ago, a psychiatrist testifying at his parole hearing says.Breivik, a political extremist, killed 77 people in Norway's worst peacetime atrocity in July 2011.
ADF not surrogate aged care workforce: PM
As the aged care sector faces ongoing COVID-19 outbreaks and staff shortages, providers want the Australian Defence Force called in to assist.But Prime Minister Scott Morrison says defence personnel are "not a surrogate aged care workforce".
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WA shelves COVID-19 border reopening plan
West Australian Premier Mark McGowan has broken his promise to reopen the state's borders next month, claiming it would be "reckless and irresponsible" to do so given the surge in Omicron COVID-19 cases across the country.Mr McGowan announced the extraordinary backflip during a late-night press conference on Thursday, saying the state's hard borders will remain in place indefinitely.

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In addition to singing, entertaining and photography, Victoria also takes trips back in time as an actress and storyteller with Historic Tours of America (HTA).
Victoria's outstanding vocal capabilities are not limited to one genre; being excellently trained allows her the freedom to be versatile. Performing in New York City, the ability to sing various styles was paramount.
Victoria's song "Hope" is being featured on Skunk Radio Live.
Join the Strategic Ladies on the Mindful Media Show on Friday, October 5, 2018, at 11 am Pacific as we bring Victoria Horne who will share how she has achieved success in the international market.
The show will be broadcast on the multimedia page here.
Victoria has recently finished recording vocals for composers Ruediger Gleisberg and Gerold Kukulenz.
View the video AUTUMN SKY on FaceBook.
You can also listen to and purchase the track on Google Play.
Victoria's Facebook friend Bill Marchetti did a wonderful post about Victoria.
He has a lot of great photos and links to Victoria's online videos.
Victoria is superb, in a class of her own. Book Victoria Horne for your event, concert, festival through Wolf Entertainment.
Wolf Entertainment is focusing on Victoria Horne this week on their website and FaceBook.


If you are looking to move and aren't loyal to any particular state or region, there are incentives waiting for you. We told you last month about Maine offering student loan help for moving there, well there are plenty more places looking to lure you in.
Here are just a few examples and the benefits awaiting you.
Candela, Italy. They are trying to boost their dwindling population by offering up to 25-hundred dollars to families. Singles and couples are welcome too with a smaller bonus.
New Haven, Connecticut. You can get up to 80-thousand dollars for buying a house there and that includes 10-thousand dollars interest free to use as a down payment. If you buy a fixer-upper there's even more money for you.
Baltimore, Maryland. Through a lottery, 30 lucky potential residents get five thousand bucks to put towards a new home. If you opt for a distressed home or vacant lot you can get 10 grand.
If you decide to move to the frozen tundra, you'll get a share of 25-percent of oil revenues. That can be up to three thousand dollars.
Kansas and Nebraska. The Plains are calling you! a few Kansas and Nebraska towns are offering free tracts of land. Lincoln, Kansas's Free Lot Plan includes lot sizes of between 12 and 36 thousand square feet within walking distance of the community's business district. Curtis, Nebraska also offers free lots to be built on (pending application and permit approval) in a community that already has paved roads and utilities ready. And Harmony, Nebraska offers cash rebates of five to 12 thousand bucks for those building new homes in the city.
Saskatchewan, Canada. They have a graduate retention program that covers tuition.
You can get 45-thousand dollars and a one-year working visa to launch your business there. Not only that, but you could score 100-thousand dollars in perks too.


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2011 is quickly drawing to a close, along with Coonhound Companions first full year as a non-profit promoting the adoption and public awareness of Coonhounds in shelters through out the Untied States and Canada.
I was the last member of our group to join up, living in the largest urban city in Maine, I don't see many coonhounds being walked on the streets on Portland. That may be changing due to the efforts of a shelter in Dunn County Humane Society in Menomonie, Wisconsin.
Coonhound Companion founding member Anna lives in Wisconsin, an active volunteer at her local shelter she emailed shelters state wide offering them posters from our site: http://www.coonhoundcompanions.com/posters--more.html beautiful, downloadable posters singing the praises of coonhounds as family pets.
She received a great email back from one a shelter in Dunn County, Wisconsin sharing their new brochure helping to "drown" the stereotypes of coonhounds in their area, where they have a lot of coonhounds available for adoption.
Way to go Dunn County Humane Society! I love their creative, fun message.
_What a surprise when I read that LL Bean was coming from the Dunn County Shelter!
Coonhound Companion's efforts and creative shelters like Dunn County ARE making a difference for coonhounds. This is a wonderful way to end the year, and I'm looking forward to spotting this handsome Coonhound being walked on the streets of Portland in the near future.


Birds of a feather flock together- and dine together too in this delightful table from the artists at Sticks! Four bold and colorful birds grace the table top amid bright flowers on a subtle stained wood background. Words of wisdom and love frame the table top. A sturdy milled pedestal atop a grass green base, there are even flowers around the pedestal bottom and leaves on the base! Each of the six light colored milled wood chairs has different wildflowers "growing" on the seat.


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Calls to keep Dartford recycling centre clean following fire
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Councillors call on Kent County Council to "pull their finger out" as fly tipping increases in Gravesham following Pepperhill fire. Picture: Matt Jones
Gravesham councillors are calling Kent County Council (KCC) to keep the area clean following an increase in fly-tipping following the fire at Pepperhill recycling centre.
KCC closed the centre in Station Road, Southfleet after a fire in April destroyed the single-storey industrial building.
The nearest tips now for residents in Gravesham are in Dartford, Swanley and Cuxton.
Councillors claim that due to the closure of Pepperhill there has been an increase in people illegally leaving waste on the side of the roads, often blocking country roads in the borough.
Borough councillors voted unanimously to "condemn" the surge in littering, calling on the county council to offer more than the "meagre" opening hours at other tips.
Swanley and Dartford recycling centres are open on Monday, Tuesday, Friday and Saturday from 8am to 4.30pm, with extended hours on Wednesday and Thursday until 6.30pm and 6pm. On Sundays and bank holidays opening hours are from 9am to 4pm.
Cllr Shane Mochrie-Cox, who proposed the motion for the meeting on June 26, said: "We need KCC to up their game and give out more resources to ensure that one of the most basic of council services is met.
"I think every councillor will have their mailbags and emails full of the public asking the council to help and do more so I'm here to ask 'what are we doing about it?'
"We are falling a bit short here and our residents are suffering.
"There's no excuse for fly-tipping, or littering for that matter, and I fully condemn those who undertake it to the detriment of our area."
He claimed that Gravesham Borough Council (GBC) only takes 16per cent of the proceeds so KCC "should do more and give GBC the resources we need".
Cllr Michael Wenban (Con) shared his support for the motion and said: "I think KCC are so far off the mark, to be quite honest I think they could have built a recycling plant by the time it's taken to do the repairs.
"There's no contingency plan, none at all.
"There has been an increase in fly-tipping and it is shame but it's about catching people.
"When it's dark you don't see people who do it. It is a blight, we are a disgusting, filthy nation when it comes to litter.
"I think KCC ought to pull their finger out, to be quite honest with you and speed this up."
Thom Morris, a Kent County Council spokesman, said: "We appreciate that while the site is closed, it is inconvenient for people wanting to get rid of their waste.
"We also recognise the severe pressures on the surrounding household waste recycling centres.
"It is for this reason that we extended the opening hours in Dartford, Swanley and Maidstone.
"The disposal of waste is strictly regulated and only specific permitted sites can accommodate waste operations, so there are limitations to the contingencies that can be made.
"Consideration of a site, adequate in size to manage high volumes of traffic – Pepperhill usually has over 1,000 cars a day – as well as the space required to manoeuvre the lorries exchanging the skips and containers regularly throughout the day, means that siting something similar, somewhere else, is unachievable.
"However, KCC Waste Management is looking for alternative solutions and is reviewing any options for KCC land that may be used in the area that would comply with planning and the EA requirements.
"We welcome any suggestions from Gravesham Borough Council in relation to land that could be utilised for this purpose.
"KCC has not been made aware of any financial loss that has been incurred by Gravesham Borough Council as a result of this closure.
"We have offered to discuss any cost pressures that arise from the situation.
"We have paid for extra collection crews in both Gravesham and Dartford to ensure collection rounds are delivered to schedule and these have not been affected by the closure.
"We have had no further requests for assistance.
"Last week we held a day of action that included dealing with offences such as fly-tipping, which we believe is a clear demonstration of KCC's commitment along with other local authorities to tackle organised crime.
"KCC does not tolerate fly-tipping and will continue to work closely and advise local authorities how best to deal with local fly-tipping issues."
Gravesham Borough Council


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Help the ghost of Samuel de Champlain regain his memory of Canada`s national historic sites in an interactive game for younger children.
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Riel House National Historic Site of Canada: Louis Riel: Martyr, Traitor, Hero, or ... ?: Lesson Plan
Louis Riel has been interpreted differently by different groups and individuals at different times in our history. Poems, books, plays, and songs have been created to explain Louis Riel. The diverse images of this man have always reflected the politics of the times and they continue to do so. This educational activity prompts the question, "Who was the 'real' Louis Riel?"
Rideau Canal National Historic Site of Canada: Rideau Canal National Historic Site of Canada Receives World Heritage Site Designation!: Lesson Plan
Students are provided with information on the Rideau Canal National Historic Site of Canada, to understand why it has recently received designation as a world heritage site


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If you are looking for a safe, non-invasive and natural approach to getting the relief and healing you need, chiropractic care at Brainard Chiropractic offers alternative solutions for pain medication and surgery that can keep you out of the game. Dr. Brainard and his team of chiropractors and technicians are pleased to offer sports injury service and treatment in Fremont, North Bend, Hooper, Nebraska and Arlington, Nebraska.
Back Pain: Often caused by herniated, bulging or slipped discs due to a fall or impact, back pain is a common complaint of most athletes at some point during their career. When left untreated, back injuries can source a number of symptoms and secondary conditions including sciatica and radiating pain the neck, shoulders, and appendages.
Neck Pain: Neck pain troubles those even in low impact sports such as golf and tennis, often due to the repeated need to turn the head when swinging or watching the balls. However, it's often the result of harsh impacts during sports such as hockey and football in cases where a concussion or whiplash result. Those with an ache in the neck are more prone to suffer from headaches and acute or chronic migraines.
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THE hotel room was flooded, the ceiling collapsed and the beach was filled with seaweed. But results of medical tests when they got home were the final straw.
A UK family's $5000 holiday to Mexico was ruined when their hotel ceiling collapsed and the dad was left with a disease caused by eating human poo.
The Madley family say they had to paddle through flood water every day and attempted to sun themselves on a disappointing beach, very different to the one featured in the brochure.
Heavy rain brought down part of the ceiling at the Bahia Principe Coba Hotel in Riviera Maya, Yucatan and daughter Madison, 9, suffered a head injury after slipping on a wet floor during their two-week stay.
Adding insult to injury, dad Scott, 29, contracted cyclospora — a tropical disease usually caused by eating food contaminated with human faeces.
The British Gas engineer said he only ate in the hotel's restaurants during the June holiday and was diagnosed with the illness after returning home.
Mr Madley voiced his frustration on social media at the weekend, claiming the family complained about the illness, condition of the hotel and other problems they encountered, but that UK-based travel operator TUI had ignored them.
Scott and his wife, Tammy, 27, are now demanding the company investigate for the health and safety of other holiday-makers.
Mr Madley wrote: "Upon arrival our room was flooded. We reported it immediately and it was mopped out.
"It became apparent that the leak was coming through the ceiling and a simple mop up wasn't going to solve the issue.
"I reported it to the TUI representative who was not interested and stated everyone has room problems.
Mr Madley believes he contracted the infection after eating from one of the hotel's restaurants.
"There was a variety of buffets and a la carte restaurants all included in the package and were all based within the resort, as part of the hotel," he said.
"The doctor advised a lot of cases of cyclospora have been reported and symptoms stemmed towards it being this.
Mr Madley has advised TUI he wants a full investigation "to be completed and compensation awarded along with acknowledgment of their neglect and an apology".
A spokesman for TUI, said: "We are sorry to hear about the Madley family's experience on their recent holiday to Mexico and we will be contacting Mr Madley directly to discuss the issues raised.


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Q: Spring Data JPA sort by join table @OrderColumn? I'm using Spring Data JPA to query a User entity that has a collection of UserGroups. The ordering of these groups is significant, so I've declared an @OrderColumn on the relationship:
@Entity
public class User {
    @Id
    private String id;

    @ManyToMany
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I need to query the groups for a particular user, and I want them to come back in the order specified by the @OrderColumn in the join table. I have this query method in my UserGroupRepository.
public Page<UserGroup> findByUsersIdContains(String userId, Pageable pageable);

That query does not honor the ordering I want. Is there something I can add to the method name, or specifying in the Sort definition within the Pageable, to order by the order column in the join table?

A: You should provide a column name which should be used for ordering the relationship. This answer shows how the annotation @OrderColumn could be used. Even though the example is for a @OneToMany relationship, this ordering should also work for @ManyToMany.


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Slumber Citizens (Condensed Addendum)
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2. Slumber Citizen 013654 Works as a Private Tutor for Deviant Citizen/The Flavor of a Dream
Several years of the incarceration of Deviant Citizen 166601 passed in the Institution, and this with only mild success. His parents, who could no longer afford the trauma brought on to the family, nor the expense, hired Citizen 013654 for her services as a private tutor. By this time, she was seeking early retirement; consistent self-discipline and adherence to a stringent schedule had begun to take its toll. However, she found the case of Deviant Citizen to be pitiable and at the same time intriguing; therefore, she took up the office of his tutorship.
Our son suffers from what we believe to be the oppression of nightmares. In turn, these nightmares, when forgotten incarnate into monstrous selves of equal or worse quality to his deviant, core self. We have discovered that our son is soothed, his parents insisted, by intimate acquaintance with literature. His instructors at the Institution – while well trained in the area of discipline – are not of the literary kind (they read only fairy tales to him, inducing tantrums because the characters – as he insists – are interchangeable and therefore disposable). Somehow exposure to various fictional yet unique individuals makes our son more tolerable. Perhaps these literary characters become so real to his imagination that he can no longer distinguish between their personages and himself. We have exhausted our literary knowledge. Whatever it takes, they begged. Just don't include literature of the kind to do with devils or demons. Other than that, the world of literature is yours.
Entrusted with Deviant's care, Citizen 013654, well versed and well read in various genres of literature, began with her favorite author – Jorge Luis Borges.
The challenge with Borges is that he is an author of ideas more so than an author of character. Where there are characters in his stories, they are ultimately ideas. Citizen decided to go with her instincts anyway. She started by tackling Borges' "Nightmares."
She didn't confess this to his parents, for they would have wondered, why begin with a nonfiction essay that is not about people but ideas? Yet, her choice turned out to be clever in that Deviant's real issue turned out to be that he could not really distinguish between waking and dream. This fact may explain why his treatment in the Institution failed. They attempted to stimulate pleasant dreams, hoping these would produce more tolerable selves. But while awake he often believed he was dreaming. Often these delusions of dreaming were for him nightmarish. Once when he found himself behaving like a gentleman with delicate manners and etiquette, it felt so fake and freakish and different from his core self that he pinched himself in an effort to wake from the nightmare – which was really a waking reality.
Of course, the opposite would occur as well. His nightmares would often feel so much like waking that when he really woke up, it would feel like he hadn't slept at all. He would, like most children, arrive at the day's duties with lethargy and the desire to return to sleep.
Now, it would seem that such an effect – particularly in Deviant's case – would be considered ideal – a sleepy, therefore docile and controllable self. Not so. After a very brief period of time, he would be re-energized more than ever to terrorize.
What if – rather than taking on the impossible task of crushing these nightmares – they could be somehow confronted and their impressions diffused or even reverted? And so, (based on a loose interpretation and reading of Borges), Citizen came up with a unique and unusual concoction to approach Deviant's nightmares (whether waking or sleeping). She approached each one (remembered or not) as a flavor.
What does this one taste like?
A burp.
And do you like this taste?
(When he liked the taste of a dream, she presumed it would become recurring, as children tend to hold on to likeable nightmares and dreams.)
And last night's?
Like mildew and vanilla crème.
Do you like this taste?
No and yes.
(With a mixed response such as this, its recurrence would be uncertain and therefore any further exploration set aside for the time being).
And yet this other?
Blah. Bleh.
It came upon Citizen to take such a negative response a step further; she would insist that Deviant explore the taste of repulsive flavors further and deeper. Try it again, she'd recommend after having him wash it down with one of his favorite drinks (usually water sprinkled with lime). This approach often led to a watered down version of the taste – less dominating and even verging on appealing. At this point, the nightmare could turn into a friendly dream.
For example, a nightmare in which an axe murderer chases Deviant's pet dog down into the bushes before whacking it into a million different pieces could, when watered down, could become a dream about a woodsman discovering a dead deer on the highway and cutting it into several pieces to feed his family.
Now at this point, it may appear that Citizen's efforts at curing Deviant of his nightmares were off the beaten path, if not in defiance of his parent's original wishes. Remember that they wanted Citizen to read and explore classical literature with their son in order to heal their son and make him more socially acceptable. It could even be argued that he became more or less Citizen's experiment in psychology rather than a patient to be cured. Should she have exposed Deviant to the true character of Borges himself – both his private and public persona, overall likeable – rather than to his nearly blasphemous interpretation of dreams? Whatever the case, the results of this aspect of her tutorship were quite impressive.
Treating each nightmare (whether imagined or lived) as a flavor turned it into some kind of a game. She gave Deviant the freedom to taste a variety of nightmare flavors as he would various flavors of food, and the end result was at times – equal to giving even the most repulsive of tastes a chance – the exploration of nightmares as approachable as dreams. In turn, releasing him from the fear of nightmares resulted in the promotion of selves that were not to be feared. And this, after all, was the goal of his parents, and for that matter, the Institution. Explore your various selves – any other than your deviant self.
But it must be added that (as with any other child's game) Deviant grew bored and tired of this flavor game and more often that not, reverted to his core, troubled self.
Addendum to the Addendum: Relative Quotes from Borges' Nightmares:
"…for poets and mystics, it is not impossible for all of the waking life to be a dream."
"What matters, as Coleridge said, is the impression produced by the dreams."
"I have come to the conclusion, though it may not be scientific, that dreams are the most ancient aesthetic activity."
"Duality is part of the horror of dream. And nightmare has a 'flavor.' (This last quote has been paraphrased.)
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This is a really great story. It takes some interesting twists, and I like how it unfolds. The idea of treating a child's psychosis with literature appeals to me. Also, the incorporation of Borges and flavored dreams works well. I would submit it for publication.
Tyrone, thanks for reading! This is actually an excerpt from a longer work that I'm calling, "Slumber Citizens/In the Waking Day." It will be just one entry in an appendix/addendum, and is turning into a novella or at least a novelette. Your input is great!


"Hyperbole" should be the middle name of most all politicians. They are masters of embellishment, of overstatement, of stretching the truth and tall tales both big and small.
The article pertained to a recent speech given by state school board member Mary Scott Hunter of Huntsville to the Etowah County Republicans. You can read it here. Ms. Hunter was trying to explain her justification for voting to hire non-educator Mike Sentance from Massachusetts to run the Alabama Department of Education.
Having written extensively on this topic, talked to many educators and done a lot of research, I read the article carefully. She said when the board was searching for a new state superintendent, Sentance was in impressive candidate. She talked to him on the phone and liked what she heard. "He knocked it out of the park in his interview," she said.
Of course, since beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, "knocking it out of the park," is certainly open for speculation. But I will say that Mr. Sentance was more impressive in his interview than the board members who conducted the interview. Six candidates were interviewed and NONE were asked questions germane to only their background and experiences. Instead, each board member asked all six a pre-selected "canned" question.
For instance, Sentance applied for the Alabama State Superintendent's job in 2011 and did not get an interview. Yet no one asked him why he is more qualified now than he was five years ago. And five of the board members, plus the governor, were on the 2011 search committee. Did they even know he was a former applicant? Was the vetting process thorough enough to turn up this fact?
Sentance also withdrew in writing on June 27 (the deadline for applications was June 7.) Why did no one on the State Board ask him about this? Why did he withdraw? Why did he change his mind by June 28?
Back to the article in question.
Looking at Sentance's tenure in education in Massachusetts, Hunter said, the board found that Alabama spends about 72 percent of what Massachusetts does on education.
"We don't get 72 percent of their results," she explained.
According to the Census Bureau, in 2014 Massachusetts spent $15,087 per pupil in public schools, Alabama spent $9,028. So these numbers show Alabama only spent 59.8 percent per pupil as Massachusetts did in 2014.
What was the return on investment? The 2015 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) scores shows on 8th grade reading for all students, the Bay State scored 274, while Alabama was 259.
Divide these scores into how much was spent per pupil and you discover Massachusetts spent $55.06 for every NAEP point, while Alabama spent $34.87. In other words, we got a lot more for our money than they did.
As to the 72 percent of Massachusetts results Ms. Hunter says we don't get. She is right as 259 is 94.5 percent of 274. So we are doing much better than 72 percent.
She also said in her remarks, "Professionals in the classroom always have to be part of the solution." This is a fascinating statement considering that the voices of educators at all levels were completely ignored during this search process. If a single Alabama educator endorsed Mike Sentence, I haven't found him/her. And to claim we should include educators when in reality they are ignored, is dumbfounding.
Articles such as this make it easy to understand why 64 percent of the 1,286 respondents to this survey give the state school board a failing score of D or F.


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Dan tore his eyes away from the strange tableau, drawn by sudden movement in the corner. There was the guy from earlier, watching them from behind a tall wooden counter. He flicked his hand, inviting them over, and Dan inched toward him. This didn't seem like the family establishment Uncle Steve had described, but Dan was determined to settle this.
They shuffled to the counter and then behind it, where Dan discovered a curtain separating the front of the store from a larger and better-lit stock room. He couldn't tell if it was part of the store during the day, but it was filled, floor to ceiling. There were bookshelves in the back and glass cabinets toward the front.
Jewelry; stacks of postcards and photographs; old spectacles; even tiny, delicate animal skulls were all arranged in the glass cases with seemingly no thought given to organization or theme. It was one giant cabinet of curiosities—one Dan admittedly felt tempted to explore.
"You actually showed up," the dark-haired guy said, watching them from where the cabinets transitioned to shelves. "That means Sabrina owes me ten bucks." He came forward and extended a hand to Dan. "Oliver Berkley. Welcome to my humble shop."
"You don't look like a daughter to me," Jordan rasped, leaning against one of the cabinets.
Oliver laughed weakly, motioning with one hand for Jordan to get off the cabinet and sticking the other hand into the back pocket of his faded jeans. Tall and thin, he had a classic, almost cherubic look to him, with ruddy cheeks and chestnut brown hair piled carelessly on his head, cropped close at the sides. He'd look like a teenager if it weren't for the small, shiny scar cut diagonally into the curve of his upper lip. Something about that scar gave away his real age. "There were plenty of daughters when the store opened, but that was a few generations ago." His tone dropped its levity. "Now there's only me."
A farther door opened to Oliver's right, and Dan recognized the girl who had been in the car with him earlier.
"This is Sabrina, my girlfriend," Oliver said, introducing a petite black girl with a shaved head and bright, round, hazel eyes. Two tiny silver rings pierced her right nostril.
"They really did show up," she said, smirking and joining Oliver near the shelves. She wore a slashed-up pink tank top over black denim shorts and purple tights. "This kid explain yet how he knew we were following them?"
"I'm not this kid," Dan said testily. "My name is Dan Crawford. These are my friends, Jordan and Abby. Really, I think you owe us an explanation before I say anything else. Why were you following us? And why the hell were you taking pictures?"
Oliver's gray eyes widened in surprise, his thick brows tenting and meeting in the middle. "Whoa, there. Y'all are going ninety in a fifty-five. We didn't take any pictures of you. I was just doing my friend a favor. He said y'all were good with research and the like. Said you could help."
"Help with what?" Abby interjected, pushing farther into the room. She paced, speaking quickly and with her hands, flinging her hair out of her face when it had the audacity to come out of its pins. "What friend are you talking about? I've never seen you people before in my life. How would we have friends in common?"
Dan took her by the arm, squeezing gently. He turned back to Oliver and Sabrina. "She has a point."
"Just let me start from the start," Oliver said, drawing over a metal stool and perching on it. He took a cigarette out of his jeans pocket but didn't light it, instead fiddling with it idly while he spoke, twirling it between his fingers. "Things haven't been great around here the past few years. My old man passed. I got left with the store, and right away, bam, there were break-ins, thefts, graffiti, what have you. I finally thought things had blown over, right, then a few months ago, my dad's grave was tossed. Robbed," he explained, seeing the blank looks on their faces. "My granddaddy's, too. It felt personal, ya know? Like I was being targeted. I finally thought, hey, maybe it was over some rough stuff I got mixed up in a few years back with my buddy Micah—"
Dan froze, and Abby and Jordan both gasped. Oliver and Sabrina stared at him, clearly waiting for him to explain what the big deal was.
"Micah did say he went to juvie for a while," Dan said meekly.
"So you do know him. Good. Thought I was going really damn crazy for a minute there." Oliver blew out a relieved breath, leaning back on the stool. "He said y'all could help, that you dug up some pretty deep dirt back at that school he goes to. Stuff that could help me."
A small, sharp finger wiggled into his ribs. Dan looked over to see Abby staring pleadingly at him, and he nodded.
"Can I, uh, see the messages Micah sent you?" Dan asked, hoping he sounded neutrally curious. "Just to make sure you really do know each other."
"Sure thing," Oliver said, pulling an old iPhone out of his pocket. He maneuvered to the messages and then handed the phone across. "See? 'Dan and his friends Abby and Jordan.' You're all three mentioned right here. We weren't tryin' ta scare you or nothing. It's just, I really have been that desperate for help around here, and Micah . . . Well, I knew he'd be the one who could help me."
Dan scanned the messages. Unlike the ones he had been receiving from "Micah," these all appeared to be made of complete, coherent sentences. And they weren't sporadic warnings, either. There were messages from yesterday, the day before, the day before that. . . . The heat outside didn't matter—Dan felt chilled through.
"Oliver." He felt Jordan and Abby go still and tense beside him as he cleared his throat, handing the phone back and saying softly, "I wish I didn't have to be the one to tell you this, but there's no way Micah really sent those messages. Micah's gone. We saw him die."
For a long moment nobody moved or spoke. Then Oliver shocked them all by laughing, even snorting a little, before rubbing at his nose. He tucked the cigarette behind his ear and stared down at his phone, still laughing. "That's . . . No, that just ain't right. It ain't possible. It's right here."
Dan shifted. "Those are text messages. Whoever has his phone could send them. You don't . . . you don't have Facebook, do you?"
Which seemed almost as weird as the messages, in a certain light, but Dan let it go. This Ouija-tiny-bird-skull shop didn't exactly scream normal or current.
"No, I do not," Oliver said slowly.
"If you did," Jordan cut in, "you would have seen Micah's profile get memorialized. That's what happens when . . . you know."
"But how, and I mean—damn. No way. That's—that just can't be true." Oliver's hands shook around the phone until he hid them in his pockets again. "Not Micah. Not him, man. He was a fighter."
"I'm sorry," Dan said. "It's true."
"You said you saw it," Sabrina said, putting an arm around her boyfriend. "How did he die?"
Dan got the impression Sabrina had never met Micah. The way she asked, in such a callous tone and without a hint of emotion, made him think there was no way.
"Not well," Dan mumbled. "I'd really rather not go into details."
Oliver's square chin quivered, but Sabrina's arm anchored him. He slid down against the shelf, but she held him back up.
"Look, you're not crazy," Dan said. At least not any crazier than I am. "I've been getting messages from him, too. Mine are really disjointed and don't make very much sense. I think—especially now that I'm seeing yours, too—that someone is playing a nasty prank on us."
"How'd you know him?" Sabrina asked. Oliver didn't look fit to speak just then.
"The three of us met at a summer program at Micah's college," Abby explained gently. "Then we went back for a prospective students' weekend, and that's when we met him. He was Dan's host. I think, well—he was in with a bad crowd, let's leave it at that."
Dan gave her a subtle nod. He didn't think it wise to go into too much detail about the Scarlets. There w
as no guarantee he could trust these two, even if Oliver really did look broken up at the news.
"He didn't have much family to speak of, even when I knew him," Oliver piped up, swallowing audibly. "Poor kid. And here I was, thinking he was doing better for himself, gettin' somewhere far away from here." He paused, looking at a point next to Jordan's shoulder, his eyes glassy and ready to spill tears.
"You said you and Micah got mixed up in some rough stuff when he was still here," Jordan said. "What did you mean?"
Oliver sighed. "No use keeping it a secret now, I guess. Back before the whole juvie thing, before Micah had to move up to his grandmother's in Shreveport, we used to run jobs for this piece of work who called himself the Artificer. Real covert type—never liked to meet in person. Micah found his ad on craigslist. I ain't know what the hell that was, but Micah knew his way around the computer. Said we could make some real money."
Oliver wiped his nose on his sleeve, and Sabrina took over, rubbing his shoulder as she carried on where he had left off. "What you've got to understand is, things got pretty desperate after Katrina. My family was lucky, all told, but this shop was under six feet of water. Ollie's family was going to go bankrupt."
"I robbed graves for this fucker," Oliver spat out, clenching his jaw. "Micah knew all the lingo in these ads, but I didn't really get it until we got our marching orders. 'Lawn cleanup.' Wasn't no lawn cleanup." He gave a dark laugh. "But, yeah, I was desperate. Micah said it would be no big deal—get the valuables, drop them off somewhere, pick up a check the next week. Trust me, it was one fat check, or I wouldn't have stooped to that level."
"For what it's worth," Dan said, "it didn't seem like Micah was proud of his life down here when I met him, either."
Oliver waved his sympathy away. "Stealing a few necklaces was bad, yeah, but then we were told to take bones. That's . . . that's when I wanted to stop. But Micah, I tell ya, once that boy got an idea in his head, he just didn't quit. He was good at it. He kept saying we were 'trading up.' Fat lot of good all that trading up did him in the end."
He paused and shook his head, resting his palms on his knees and leaning into them. "I couldn't do it. Couldn't take nobody's bones. I took the jewelry, but not the other stuff. The Artificer stiffed me on the check, and I never heard from that guy again—until the graves. That's right. They didn't just take my dad's valuables. They took his bones, Dan. My granddaddy's, too. It's that Artificer, I'm telling you. People like that are evil, and ain't no price high enough for me to mess with what's just plain damn evil."
Dan stared at Oliver and Sabrina, stumped on what to say in the face of such a story. It was Abby who finally broke the silence, gesturing back and forth between the boys as if brokering a peace treaty.
"Maybe the messages will stop now, at least," she said. "You said the messages told you to find Dan specifically. Well, maybe this meeting was the whole point. Maybe someone just wanted you to know what happened to your friend, and someone wanted Dan to know the full backstory. To understand what made Micah into the person we knew. You two have met now, and it's all kind of cosmically satisfying, right?"
Now it's all settled, case closed, and we can go back to enjoying our trip, please, her tone seemed to imply.
"You keep sayin' 'someone,'" Oliver said. "But from where I'm standin', it seems pretty clear that the messages are from Micah. He's the one who needed us to find each other, not 'someone.'"
"You've got to be kidding me," Jordan said. Dan didn't respond, even though there was a small part of him that was ready to accept what Oliver was saying. All the pieces fit.
"Okay, don't believe me," Oliver finally said. "But I still don't think we have the full story. Maybe if I got to know you, ya know? Maybe show you around, help you feel welcome in this town."
"We've got my uncle for that," Jordan replied shortly.
"Look," Dan said, "I feel terrible about your shop, and I agree, it's really sick that your family's graves got robbed, but I'm sorry to say, those aren't exactly our problems. Maybe it's best to think of it like Abby said. Micah is at peace now. That's the important thing."
He put out his hand, waiting for Oliver to take it. The taller boy shrugged, but accepted the gesture of goodwill. Goodwill and good-bye.
"I really do hope you can get your . . . stuff . . . back," Dan added. "But you already have a cool shop here. Things will turn around. Take my number, okay? In case this Micah thing doesn't, you know, go away."
"Yeah," Sabrina said lightly, dismissing them with a scornful roll of her eyes. "See you around."
Dan took that as their cue to leave. He and his friends huddled back into the front room of the shop, where the dark enveloped them along with the scent of candles and the low chant of the séance group. Dan shivered, and Jordan stepped on his heels, almost pushing him over in his rush to get clear of the shop.
"Roger Berkley, can you hear us? Hear us, Roger, and respond. . . ."
The trio skirted the table and the summoners sitting there. Dan made the mistake of glancing once more in their direction. An older, ginger-haired woman stared back at him. Her eyes were closed, but in the flicker of candlelight, the pale lids of her eyes seemed to glow white, like vacant holes.
Then her eyes snapped open, wide and staring.
"They found me," she whispered fiercely, her eyes rolling back into her head. "Oh. They'll find you, too."
Dan grabbed Jordan's shoulder for balance, then turned and stumbled out of the store.
The bell above the door chimed sweetly, and the cloying scent of the candles vanished, obliterated by the humid Louisiana air.
Dan tried to peer back into the store, but he was shut out by the curtains. He moistened his lips, following in the wake of his friends, who had already begun to walk briskly down the sidewalk.
"Holy Creepsville, USA," Jordan whispered, giving an exaggerated shudder. He glanced back at Dan, his lip stud flashing under a sudden flood of lamplight. "Can you believe those weirdos? And that story?"
"Did you hear that?" Dan replied.
"I feel sorry for them." Abby shook her head and waited for Dan to catch up, carefully taking him by the hand. "Not knowing about Micah, and you having to tell them. Dan, I'm so sorry. That must have been awful."
"No, in the store . . ." He stopped, realizing that he was short of breath. His lungs ached. "Did you hear what that woman said to me?"
"No. Dan, I don't think she said anything." Abby let go of his hand, giving Jordan a look that was becoming increasingly familiar and irritating.
"I'm not hearing things," Dan said, not giving a damn if he sounded defensive. "She spoke to me. I saw her eyes open and then she said: 'They found me, they'll find you, too.'"
Jordan flinched. "Jesus. All the more reason to get the hell out of there and never go back." He picked up where Abby left off, going to Dan's side and hooking an arm around his back, coaxing him back toward Uncle Steve's. "Look on the bright side—some chick being creepy at a séance is a big improvement over being stabbed, set on fire, or chased. For once, we found the people who were following us and they weren't trying to kill us! Hope springs eternal."
Dan nodded, but the pit in his stomach only worsened. He couldn't shake that woman's voice in his head.
They'll find you, too.
He let himself be led back to the house, silent. He didn't have the heart to point out that Jordan was only half-right: they had found Oliver and Sabrina, yes, but neither of them had been the mysterious photographer. Someone else was still out there, following them. And Dan still had a lead to check.
"What is it, man? I'm exhausted." And he was. Dan couldn't remember the last time he had felt so bone-tired. Sleeping in a real bed had brought to light al
l the bumps and discomforts caused by sleeping in a tent so many nights in a row. Now that he had an honest-to-God mattress under his back, he'd let himself succumb to it, sleeping hard, deep, and dreamlessly.
But now Jordan was sitting on the end of Dan's futon, his weight strangely light, hardly making an impression on the duvet.
"What is it?" Dan repeated, groggy.
Jordan sat staring at his hands, then twisted slightly, looking at Dan and grinding his lip piercing against his lower teeth, an anxious gesture Dan had noticed getting worse over the last few days. Jordan didn't say anything; he just watched Dan, unblinking, the little black dot in his lip going around and around.
"Jordan, you—"
He fell abruptly silent, pushing back against his pillow as the piercing in Jordan's lip began to move, then wriggle, then ooze out of his lip, growing into a long, black worm that spilled from Jordan's mouth like a piece of slime. If Dan pulled the covers over his head, this would stop, but his hands refused to obey. Jordan closed his eyes and yawned, his head rolling back as his tongue dissolved into a hundred black worms that dripped down onto the bed. When he opened his eyes again there was nothing there, just two black voids that glittered, trickling down his cheeks in dark rivers, as if his skull was filled with a thick, living oil.
Jordan's pale jaw loosened as if coming unhinged, and that was when Dan regained enough control of his faculties to throw the covers over his head and scream.
The sound woke him out of the nightmare and into another one. Jordan was still there, sitting on the end of his futon. Dan swallowed, shivering as he slid the duvet down and leaned forward, then poked Jordan in the arm.
His friend swayed and woke up, murmuring something incoherent before glancing around and finding Dan there, staring at him wide-eyed and shaky.
"What the hell?" Jordan croaked.
"My thoughts exactly." Dan watched him, suspicious that this too would turn into a hallucination. "Are you . . . Why are you sitting there?"
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Matters from CPI (ML) Red Star (October 2015)
by CPI (ML) Red Star, 19 October 2015
Resolutions on International Developments
(Adopted by the CC meeting of CPI (ML) Red Star held on 12th and 13th October)
The CC of CPI (ML) Red Star congratulates the people of Nepal for getting the Constitution promulgated in spite of all obstacles confronted during the last seven years. At the same time, it condemns the interference of the Indian government in the internal affairs of Nepal. By arm-twisting the Constituent assembly members and the Nepal government, the Indian government was trying to make Nepal a Hindu Rashtra. The involvement of the Indian Government was clearly exposed in a letter demanding seven changes in the Constitution which the Indian government later tried to play down as "suggestions". As a result of blockade of all its land routes from India using Madhesh struggle as a cover, a crippling situation has been created in Nepal. Our party has already issued a statement condemning the interference of the Indian government in Nepal. We also initiated a joint statement signed by various parties, organizations and individuals. The CC appeals to all left and democratic forces to bring pressure on the government to stay out of the internal affairs of Nepal.
The developments in Greece show that the Tsipras government has sold out. Still it could win in the latest elections as there is no alternative force committed to fight austerity measures, rejecting the neo-liberal raj. When more than 60% voted against austerity measures in the referendum, in the present elections people massively abstained from voting, showing their continuing opposition to neo-liberal policies. The CC extends full support to the people of Greece to take forward their struggle against the troika of IMF-European Central Bank-European Union, who are imposing the austerity measures.
On 5th October 2015, the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) became a reality. This is a trade partnership between 12 countries on the Pacific Rim including the US, New Zealand, Australia, Canada and Japan. The clauses of this pact have been shrouded in secrecy, and it seems it includes clauses on further extending patents and Intellectual Property Rights. It presents "grave risks" and "serves the interests of the wealthiest" according to progressive forces. In 2014, Noam Chomsky warned that the TPP is "designed to carry forward the neoliberal project to maximize profit and domination, and to set the working people in the world in competition with one another so as to further lower wages to increase insecurity". The CC of CPI (ML) Red Star calls on all progressive forces to expose and resist this treaty.
The migration question in Europe is an ongoing crisis. The face of the young Aylan Kurdi has become the face of the migration problem. There were many attempts to trick the migrants in trains entering Europe by diverting whole trains. The surfacing of this problem shows the deteriorating state of affairs in the regions of North Africa, Central Asia and West and South Asia from where most of the migrants are coming. The problem is a creation of imperialist – mainly US imperialist – intervention and aggression in the region and still the imperialists refuse to take responsibility of even a small section of the millions of refugees. This exposes the barbaric nature of these forces. Instead of treating the migrants with humanitarian concern, they are being treated in a rude and ham-handed manner by the US and European authorities. The CC severely condemns this inhuman attitude of imperialists and calls on all progressive forces to support the cause of the migrants and their right to get asylum as refugees from imperialist aggression.
The UN summit on sustainable development has turned out into a big tamasha. Following the 8-point millennium development goals (MDGs) set up in 2000, and after further deliberations at the Rio Summit on Sustainable Development (Rio + 20), the UN has now adopted a charter of around 17 goals which are to be achieved over the next 15 years to bring forth sustainable development. Going from such platitudes as ending hunger and poverty and the right to water the goals are aimed, unlike the MDGs of 2000, not at governments alone but mainly at the private corporations. So now the saving of the environment (and removing poverty and hunger) has been left to the tender mercies of "corporates' social responsibility". Without a word of criticism about the non-achievement of the MDGs of 2000, the imperialists and their lackeys are conveniently stepping over to the new '17 commandments' of the sustainable development goals. The CC severely condemns these imperialist moves under the banner of sustainable development and calls on all progressive forces to oppose the present development perspective of the imperialist system which devastates nature and to campaign for a people-oriented development which only can protect nature and ecology.
The election of Jeremy Corbyn, a left wing leader, as the leader of the Labour Party in the UK shows the frustration of the working class there with leaders who compromise with the established imperialist policies. Corbyn is an advocate of the re-nationalistaion of public utilities including the railways, abolishing university tuition fees and restoring student grants, a unilateral policy of nuclear disarmament, 'People's Quantitative Easing' to fund infrastructure and renewable energy projects, and reversing cuts to public sector and welfare funding made since 2010; proposing combating tax evasion and avoidance by corporations and wealthy individuals, and reducing business subsidies, as an alternative to the government's austerity programme. The cutting of social welfare and social spending in the UK has clearly had its effect on the labour voters. The CC welcomes this as a sign of the left swing slowly taking place in many European countries.
The Malabar Exercise this year has seen the Japanese Navy also being involved in this in the Bay of Bengal for the first time. Earlier, India hosted this exercise when the US was the only other participant. The exercise, whenever it involved others, was off the coast of Japan. This shows the increasing closeness of the Indian government with the US imperialists' alliance. The CC condemns this exercise and subservience of Indian government to US imperialism and demands its dissolution.
Observe 7th November Demanding Peace, Bread and Democracy
The Central Committee meeting of CPI (ML) Red Star calls on all Party Committees to observe 7th November, the 98th anniversary of the Russian revolution with the slogan "Peace, Bread and Democracy" (Shanti, Roti and Janwad), starting from grass root level campaigns and culminating with state level mobilizations. In the context of the year-long campaign planned from 7th November, 2016 to celebrate the Centenary of the October Revolution with revolutionary zeal, the CC calls on the Party committees to take up this campaign linking the spirit of proletarian internationalism with the people's issues.
Observe 6th December as "Anti-Saffronisation Day"
The CC meeting has called to observe 6th December as "Anti- Saffronisation Day" with the slogans "Resist conspiracy to turn India into Hindu Rashtra" and "Fight to save Right to Freedom of Thought, Food and Culture". Recognizing the gravity of the intensifying communal danger with undercurrents of increasing fascist threats to the polity, the CC has called for chalking out plans independently and wherever possible joining with like-minded forces by the Party committees and make the campaign and 6th December programmes militant and vigorous.
Join 3rd All-India Conference of Caste Annihilation Movement; Down with Brahmanical Onslaughts to Perpetuate Caste System
The Third All India Conference of the Caste Annihilation Movement (CAM) will be held at Raipur (Chhattisgarh) with a seminar on the topic 'Caste Annihilation in which direction?' followed by a mass rally and public meeting on 31st October and delegates' session on 1st November. Delegates and observers from Kerala, TN, Karnataka, AP, Telangana, Maharashtra, Gujarat, MP, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, UP, Delhi, Haryana, Punjab and other areas are expected to participate. The special issues of the English and Hindi journals, Caste Annihilation and Jati Unmulan respectively, with contributions from activists and intellectuals shall be released at the seminar. A vigorous campaign is organized by the Reception Committee with the slogans: Demolish Caste System and Unite and Struggle against Intensifying Atrocities and Attacks on the Democratic Rights of Dalits, Adivasis and Other Backward Classes with extensive postering, wall-writing and jathas. State level conferences of CAM are being organized in the meanwhile at Ahmedabad (Gujarat) on 18th, in Karnataka and Lucknow (UP) on 25th October.
The seminar and delegates' session shall be held at Sri Dular Viswakarma Dharmasala, Badhaipara, near Raipur railway station. All those committed to fight and demolish the caste system are invited to participate. Contact addresses: Tuhin Deb 09425560952; Tejram 08959666036.
An Appeal for Building Struggling Left and Democratic Platform as an Alternative to Ruling Class Alternatives at Central and State Level
Dear Comrades,
With the advent to power of the ultra-rightist BJP government, it is 'from frying pan to fire' for the vast majority of the people. Under intensifying corporate loot and saffronization drive of RSS Parivar, all their basic rights are snatched away more fiercely. Including the dalits, adivasis, women and minorities, all oppressed classes and sections are facing unprecedented pauperization and alienation. Even existing democratic rights, secular values, progressive aspects of foreign policy, the right to food, housing, healthcare, education and employment are taken away. Whatever plurality, humanist values, scientific temper existed has come under barbarous attacks of the saffron brigade which is trying to impose its own moral, food, dress, culture and even work code on everybody. Beating back this reactionary offensive by the ultra-rightist religious fundamentalist forces calls for broadest possible unity of the secular, democratic and left forces.
This unity is significant and urgently needed in the present grave international situation also. With the intensification of the cascading effects of the crisis confronting it in every field, starting with the crisis of the international finance capital system, the imperialist forces, especially US imperialism, is acting like a mad bull, destroying all progressive values developed by humanity during the many centuries of renaissance movement, democratic revolutions and socialist advances. When the military adventures in the name of 'war on terror' miserably failed and as they are forced to withdraw armed forces from many of the aggressed countries, they are promoting religious fundamentalists of all hues paving the way for emergence of ISIS like outfits. While all the basic contradictions at the international level including the inter imperialist contradictions are intensifying very fast, divisive tendencies are promoted by the imperialists and their lackeys based on religion, race, caste etc. and using identity politics like post-modernist ideologies. The burden of their crisis is imposed over the oppressed nations and peoples. Instead of serving the national interests, the Modi government is intensifying the neo-colonial servitude and dividing the people at the behest of US imperialists. In this situation the struggling left and democratic forces have to strengthen their unity against these international and national level challenges.
Though Congress and the regional parties, many of whom lead governments in many states, are talking about the need to oppose the communal fascist acts of RSS outfits, they are not opposing the increasing corporate loot or are not ready to put an end to their own communal, caste based appeasement/vote bank politics. The dissensions within the AAP so soon after its landslide victory in Delhi elections show that without challenging the ruling class politics no alternative to Congress or BJP can be built up. As far as the CPI (M) led Left Front parties are concerned, though they talk about a broad left and democratic front, they have not abandoned their reformist line and are waiting for an opportunity to join hands with the regional parties or even with Congress.
What is required is a basically different, programme-based alternative which is ready to fight the neo-liberal policies lock stock and barrel. It is with this perspective that the four constituents of the Democratic People's Forum, CPI(ML) Red Star, NSM (Gujarat), NDPI (Delhi) and Navjanavadi Lokmanch (Jharkhand) are proposing the formation of a platform of struggling left and democratic forces based on a common minimum programme which can be arrived at through discussion based on the following points and any points suggested by other organizations, as an alternative against the ruling class alternatives at central and state level: Proposed Common Minimum Program of DPF for discussion and finalization:
Oppose imperialist globalization-liberalization-privatization and neo-liberal policies; struggle against imperialist domination through IMF, World Bank, WTO and MNCs; Fight against corporatization of all fields; End corporate-mafia raj.
Fight against the intensification of communalization by all shades of religious fundamentalist forces, especially the saffronization of all fields by the Hindutva forces with the blatant support of BJP government.
Stop displacements for neo-liberal Projects; Struggle for scrapping Modi's Land Acquisition Bill; Oppose corporatization of agriculture and Second Green Revolution; Implement progressive land reforms based on land to the tiller, promoting co-operative agriculture, providing assistance to the farmers for agricultural development; ensure rights of agricultural workers including dalits and adivasis ensuring their right over the land.
Fight price-rise; Struggle for universal Public Distribution System; Fight for food security, housing, education, healthcare and employment for all; Fight for unemployment allowance to all unemployed.
Fight corporatization of industry, services and infrastructure building; Struggle for socialization of all core sectors including energy, mining, steel, minerals etc.; Fight contract and casual labour system, struggle for need based wages, job security and democratic rights of working class.
Fight for democratizing society through constitutional and democratic reforms including the right to recall elected representatives as well as government servants; Reform electoral laws introducing proportional representation; Prosecute all corrupt through special courts; Confiscate all black money deposited in foreign banks and other hideouts.
Ensure Adivasis' right over their land and natural resources; Implement autonomous councils based on Sixth Schedule in Adivasi areas; End caste-based and communal oppression, and attacks on women, dalits and oppressed classes and sections; Struggle for casteless and secular society.
End all forms of gender discrimination; Ensure women's equality in all fields.
Scrap AFSPA, UAPA and all other black laws; Withdraw military from Jammu- Kashmir and Northeast; End state terror and achieve all round democratization of the administration and society.
Settle all border disputes, a hangover from colonial days, through bilateral discussions; Withdraw military from borders and cut down military expenditure; Develop fraternal relations with neighbouring countries; Liberalize visa rules to improve people to people relations.
Abolish imperialist promoted 'development' policies which devastate nature, cause 'climate change', lead to ecological catastrophes and impoverish the people; Implement people oriented, sustainable and eco-friendly development paradigm.
This appeal is sent for your consideration and proposals.
K. N. Ramachandran, Convener, DPF, and General Secretary of CPI(ML) Red Star
All India Protest Day Observed across the Country on October 1
In states across the country, party committees organized rallies and demonstrations with the central slogans 'Unite against Corporate Raj, Communalization and Corruption! Struggle for People's Alternative' on October 1. The Punjab Committee organized a Raj Bhavan March in Chandigarh and handed over a memorandum to the governor demanding solution of urgent problems faced by workers and peasantry. At Gandhi Nagar, Gujarat, the state organizing committee submitted a memorandum. At Hyderabad the Telangana and AP committees submitted memorandum to governor. The Tamil Nadu state committee organized a similar programme in Chennai. At Nagpur the district committee organized a daylong dharna. In Madhya Pradesh dharna was organized at Bhopal, Sidhi, Asoknagar and Sagar.
While the rally and public meeting preceded by district level rallies were massive in Karnataka, in Kerala there were district level jathas and Raj Bhavan March on 1st October. In Lucknow memorandum was submitted. In Jharkhand, dharna was organized at Palamau. The Raj Bhavan March at Raipur was impressive. In Kolkata the Raj Bhavan March was organized on October 7 with an impressive rally and a 25-point charter of demands submitted to the governor in person. A booklet 'Open Letter to the Chief Minister', highlighting the failed promises of Bengal's populist chief minister, was also released on the occasion.
Stop Interfering in Nepal
More than 100 prominent persons from different sections of the society have expressed their anguish on the interference by India in Nepal's internal affairs. They have welcomed the promulgation of the Constitution on 20 September. Mentioning the displeasure shown by the government of India on the promulgation of the constitution the statement underlines the fact that 'this has further embittered the relation between the two which is already not satisfactory due to the big-brotherly attitude of the consecutive Indian governments which the Nepalese people see as an expansionist policy.' The statement says that 'It is the right of the sovereign people of Nepal to elect their representatives, to decide what ruling system they should have, to frame the Constitution and to make any changes in it. The Indian government has violated this principle of peaceful co-existence between neighbouring countries.'
Prominent intellectuals and the leaders of left, democratic and revolutionary political streams have endorsed the statement. The signatories include S. Sudhakar Reddy, Gen. Secy. CPI; Amarjit Kaur, National Secy. CPI; Swapan Mukherji, Polit Bureau Member of CPI–ML (Liberation); K. N. Ramchandran, Gen. Secy., CPI-ML (Red Star); Debbrata Biswas, Gen. Secy., All India Forward Block; Akhilendra Pratap Singh, National Convenor, All India People's Front; Sheomangal Siddhantkar, Gen. Secy., CPI-ML (New Proletarian); Raghu Thakur, President, Loktantrik Samajwadi Party; Arjun Prasad Singh of People's Democratic Front of India among others.
More than a hundred writers, journalists, academicians, filmmakers have endorsed the statement. Prominent among them are Anand Patwardhan (Filmmaker), Anil Sadgopal (Educationist), Amit Bhaduri and Nirmalangshu Mukherji (Academician), Manoranjan Mohanty (Political Scientist), Kamal Nayan Kabra , Girish Mishra and Jaya Mehta (Economists), Shamshul Islam (Theatre activist) and the writers , poets, journalists like Asad Zaidi, Mangalesh Dabral, Pankaj Bisht, Vishnu Nagar, Neelabh, Pankaj Singh, Vishnu Khare, Ranjit Verma, Ujjawal Bhattacharya, Madan Mohan, Gautam navlakha, Anand Swaroop Verma, Shastri Ramchandran, Rahul Pandita, Abhishek Srivastava, Palash Bishwas, Javed Naqvi, Amalendu Upadhyay and many others.


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Wosschajewka () ist ein Dorf (selo) in der Oblast Amur (Russland) mit  Einwohnern (Stand ).

Geographie
Der Ort liegt etwa 100 km Luftlinie nordöstlich des Oblastverwaltungszentrums Blagoweschtschensk in der Seja-Bureja-Ebene.

Wosschajewka gehört zum Rajon Belogorski und ist von dessen Verwaltungssitz Belogorsk etwa 25 km in südöstlicher Richtung entfernt. Es ist Sitz und einzige Ortschaft der Landgemeinde Wosschajewski selsowet.

Geschichte
Das bereits seit dem 19. Jahrhundert existierende Dorf wuchs insbesondere in den 1970er-Jahren erheblich im Zusammenhang mit dem Ausbau des gleichnamigen Militärflugplatzes etwa 6 km nordöstlich des Ortes. Von 1980 bis 1995 besaß Wosschajewka den Status einer Siedlung städtischen Typs. Ende der 2000er-Jahre wurde der Stützpunkt der Russischen Luftstreitkräfte aufgelöst.

Bevölkerungsentwicklung

Anmerkung: Volkszählungsdaten

Verkehr
In Wosschajewka befindet sich eine Station der auf diesem Abschnitt 1914 als Teil der Amureisenbahn Kuenga – Chabarowsk in Betrieb genommenen Transsibirischen Eisenbahn (Streckenkilometer 7893 ab Moskau). Nördlich des Ortes führt die Fernstraße M58 Amur von Tschita nach Chabarowsk vorbei, Teil der transkontinentalen Straßenverbindung.

Einzelnachweise

Ort in der Oblast Amur


Central West Local Land Services marked the launch of the statewide Local Land Services Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) with a ceremony at Dubbo's Victoria Park last Wednesday.
Central West Local Land Services Board member, Ross Sawtell said the RAP was an important step in demonstrating Local Land Services' commitment to improving reconciliation.
"The RAP clearly identifies ways to foster partnerships and relationships that focus on embracing diversity, enhancing respect and providing equitable opportunities for—and with—First Nations peoples across NSW," Mr Sawtell said.
Wednesday's launch included a smoking ceremony by Lewis Burns and involved the Dubbo Local Aboriginal Land Council, with bush tucker provided by Wellington's Dreamtime Tucker and Dubbo's Mama Carrs CHLP.
Central West Local Land Services General Manager, Andrew Mulligan said it was significant that the ceremony was held at Victoria Park, which has a strong link to the local Aboriginal people.
"The Victoria Park area has a long history of significance for the traditional owners of the Dubbo area and is one of many important sites across the region," Mr Mulligan said.
The RAP boasts original artwork, created for Local Land Services by GIlimbaa artist, Rachael Sarra of the Goreng Goreng people, that shows 11 regions connecting together, creating growth in their communities through collaboration.
The regions are depicted as connecting, growing and protecting our land, our communities and our culture to create generational change together.
More than 2,700 individuals and local Aboriginal groups were engaged through 57 consultations across NSW to help develop practical actions that build respectful relationships and create opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people under the RAP.
The Local Land Services Board has endorsed the 2018 - 2020 RAP as a solid foundation for the organisation's ongoing commitment to support local Aboriginal communities, organisations, programs, events and the adoption of respectful protocols.
This project is supported by Local Land Services, through funding from the Australian Government's National Landcare Program and has been endorsed by Reconciliation Australia.


Naaman probably knew that at some point in his life he would die from this terrible disease of leprosy. And so Naaman was willing to do anything to be cured from this wretched disease. In fact, he was so desperate that he went to seek help from the prophet Elisha who was from Israel – an enemy of the Arameans. And Elisha was willing to heal Naaman as he told him to go wash himself in the Jordan River seven times and he would be healed.
And how does Naaman react to Elisha's instructions? He is not overjoyed, he is not ecstatic, but instead he leaves Elisha's house furious! He is angry with Elisha because what he has told him to do is too easy! Naaman was probably expecting Elisha to do some great magic trick or to make a big spectacle of curing him of his leprosy. But instead Naaman was disappointed because this was too easy, it was too simple.
And today our world is filled with people like exactly like Naaman. People who say that the belief of salvation through Jesus and him alone is far too easy. And so what do they do? They attach conditions to salvation by saying you have to do good works to earn your way to heaven, you have to make trips to Jerusalem, you have to give a certain amount of money to the church to pay for time in purgatory, and so on. They think that the belief that Jesus has done everything for them cannot be true because it is far too easy.
But the Bible says that Jesus has done everything for us! The Bible tells us that it is this easy! The Bible says in Acts 16:31, "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved." It also tells us in John 3:16, "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." The Bible tells us how we are saved and it is not through anything we have done but it is through faith in what Jesus has done for us.
Sounds too good to be true doesn't it? But it isn't! It wasn't too good to be true for Naaman as he eventually did go wash in the Jordan seven times and he was healed and it is not too good to be true for you and me. Jesus died for our sins once for all. He did all of the work for us. Salvation is ours free of charge!


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