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Tenn. House Speaker Framed Black Activist – Boeing Union Activists Fired – Oregon Teachers Strike May 8th
Evidence has emerged that Tenn. Speaker of the House altered evidence to have activist Justin Jones arrested (The Tennessean)
Folks, Greetings from the Burgh, where the Buccos are back in town after ending an 8 game losing streak following a 2 game sweep of the Rangers in Texas. Hopefully, they keep the momentum going against the A's this weekend.
But first, it sounds like things are heating up back down in Tennessee.
Report: Tenn. Speaker of the House May Have Altered Evidence to Frame Black Activist
In February, a Black Lives Matter activist Justin Jones was arrested while protesting the refusal of Tennessee House Speaker Glen Casada to remove a bust of KKK Founder Nathan Bedford Forrest from the Tennessee State Capitol. Later, Jones was released on bond on the condition that he have no further contact with Casada.
Casada's office then forwarded emails to police saying that Jones wanted to come to the State Capitol to meet with Casada after the bond was issued; indicating that Jones intended to violate the terms of his bail.
Now, new evidence has emerged that Casada's Chief of Staff Cade Cothern may have altered the email, which was originally sent on February 25th to show that the emails were sent March 1st. Casada has claimed that he received the emails late due to a security glitch, but Jones has cried foul.
"It was a shock because it was my freedom," Jones told Nashville's NewsChannel5. "If this would have went through to revoke my bond, I would be in jail right now until my court date. So this is not something I take lightly."
House Democrats have called for a special prosecutor to investigate the matter and to preserve all emails and communication in the matter immediately.
Texts Show Aide Accused of Framing Jones Sent Racist Messages
Following the accusation of evidence tampering against the Tenn., Speaker of the House Casada is a series of racist text messages from Casada's chief of staff Cade Cothern obtained by Nashville's NewsChannel5.
In one text message, Casada's Chief of Staff Cothern says "black people are idiots."
In another set of text messages, Cothern says that if an acquaintance refers to Tampa Bay quarterback Jameis Winston that he must be referred to as a "thug n***er."
Another text message uses a meme of Samuel Jackson playing the house servant, who snitches on resistant slaves in the movie "Django Unchained" to refer negatively to the intelligence of African Americans.
For more, see NewsChannel5.
Boeing Fired Union Activists at Troubled North Charleston Plant
Last month, the New York Times released a far-reaching investigation that showed severe problems caused by the refusal of Boeing to transfer qualified union members from their unionized plant in Seattle to their non-union plant in North Charleston.
Now, new evidence unearthed by the Guardian's Michael Sainato shows that Boeing has retaliated against union activists at the plant:
Richard Mester worked for Boeing in South Carolina as a flight safety inspector for five years before being suddenly fired – along with two other employees – in November 2018 for allegedly failing to report a bird strike. However, the bad news also came shortly after the company was told Mester had been elected a union steward.
"I have 30 years' experience as an engine guy, so I was taken back by it because I don't miss bird strikes," Mester told the Guardian.
An air force veteran, Mester had just bought a house and had two daughters in college when he was terminated. Mester and his colleagues have filed unfair labor practice charges with the National Labor Relations Board alleging there was no bird strike at all, but rather that this is an excuse to fire workers involved in unionization efforts.
For more, go to the Guardian.
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Speaking of the Guardian looks like my freelance check from them won't arrive till next Thursday, so I'm a tad tight on cash.
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Oregon Teachers to Strike on May 8th
Next Wednesday, teachers in Oregon will go out on strike to demand that the state legislature add $2 billion in education funding.
Yesterday, in an effort to avert the strike, a bill has passed in the State House that would increase legislative funding by $2 billion. Now, the bill must pass the state Senate and be signed by the Governor.
Teachers say that no matter what happens, they intend to go out on strike to draw attention to the power of teachers. All the major school districts have already agreed to close schools to accommodate the teachers.
Sacramento Teachers to Go on Second Strike on May 22nd
On April 11th, teachers in Sacramento went out on strike to draw attention to their plight. The strike comes as the city's school faces a $35 million deficit and the possibility of a state takeover.
The teachers are striking because they claim that the district is using the money saved by concessions forced on teachers to reduce class sizes. Now, the teachers want to go out on strike to prove that they are serious.
"They've ignored the main reason that we even had the strike which was to have the district honor the contract and the promises they made for students," Sacramento Teachers union President David Fisher told Capital Public Radio
While most states' strike has been for limited times, teachers in Sacramento are planning to go out on a second strike on May 22nd.
AFL-CIO Vice President Suspended Over $117 Strip Club Receipt Submitted for Reimbursement
A potential constitutional crisis is brewing at the AFL-CIO as dissidents increasingly become upset with what they see as the old guard regime of AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka.
This week, AFL-CIO President suspended AFL-CIO Vice President Tefere Gebre from his duties as Executive Vice President after Gebre attempted to submit a $117 receipt from a strip club in Miami for reimbursement. After AFL-CIO staff flagged the receipt reimbursement, Gebre withdrew the receipt.
Gebere has protested the decision saying that the constitution doesn't allow the AFL-CIO President to unilaterally suspend an officer without first an investigation by the AFL-CIO Executive Council.
"The basis for this action is a single receipt for $117.70 that was erroneously submitted to the AFL-CIO (not by me) and then withdrawn, without payment, once the error was discovered," Gebre wrote to the 55-member AFL-CIO executive council in a letter obtained by Splinter "The AFL-CIO Constitution does not provide the President any legal authority to unilaterally remove me or any other officer from their elected position, even temporarily and with or without pay."
Gebre has demanded reinstatement and apology from AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka.
The AFL-CIO Executive Council is expected to meet on Monday to address the matter.
Flight Attendants Union President Signal Run for AFL-CIO President
In 2021, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka will be up for re-election at which time he will be 71 years old. Observers widely expect him to retire with many expecting 49-year-old AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Liz Shuler to run against him.
While Shuler would be the first female President of the AFL-CIO, many worry that Shuler, who comes out of the IBEW, which opposes the Green New Deal, represents the old guard of organized labor.
Now, 46-year-old American Flight Association President Sara Nelson, who became a labor folk hero in January when she called for a general strike to end the shutdown, has signaled in an to many she is moving to run for AFL-CIO President.
Nelson, unlike Shuler, favors the Green New Deal and has sought to ally herself with some of the more progressive elements within organized labor including American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten, who many expect will forgo a run to back Nelson.
Nelson Would Need to Light a Grassroots Insurrection To Win
In an exclusive interview with Splinter News' Hamilton Nolan, Nelson laid out what she would need to do to win:
Some people would say that the election of the AFL-CIO president is decided by ten people in a board room. But I think that if you just look at presidential politics, and you look at the decisions that unions are making to ensure that the process of endorsing a presidential candidate is transparent and directly tied to the workers on the front line—if you follow through that thinking, and the recognition from union leadership that they must have a process that engages members in determining who our leaders are going to be, that whole shift in decision-making leads to a place where the members could actually decide who the president of the AFL-CIO is.
If that paradigm shift happens, I would say yes, I have support from the major unions, because I have support from the local leadership of those unions.
I think the leadership understands the necessity of reflecting the grassroots. If you look around the table [in the AFL-CIO's Executive Council], the table does not look like the grassroots
Read the rest of the interview here.
76% of New Union Members are Under the Age of 35
The AFL-CIO hasn't had a President under the age of 60 since 1982. Current AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, who has expressed ambivalence about the Green New Deal, will be 70 this year.
A younger face leading organized labor could help the labor movement continue to make gains among the fastest growing part of the economy that is unionized: people under the age of 35.
In 2017, the labor movement gained 200,000 new members with 76% of them being under the age of 35.
With young teachers and journalists leading the way in unexpected gains for the labor movement in the past few years; With many young people galvanized by the Great Recession, many have wondered what a new more youthful face for the labor movement could do for driving even more rapid gains.
Victims of Massive ICE Raid in Tenn Could Receive Millions of Backpay
Last year, ICE conducted a massive raid detaining 97 immigrants, 86 of whom were undocumented, working at the Southeastern Provision plant in Eastern Tennessee.
Now, in an unusual move, the federal government is suing the owner of the plant for backpay on behalf of 151 workers employed at the plant will be winning millions in back pay from the owner of the plant.
"Mr. Brantley is finally being held accountable after years of violating labor laws — failing to pay his employees what they had earned and failing to provide even the most basic safety protections," Stephanie Teatro, co-director of the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition told the Knoxville News-Sentinel. "When employers and the government hold the threat of deportation above workers' heads, they are less likely to report such violations. The administration should immediately end their practice of worksite raids which enable bad actors like Brantley to flagrantly defy labor laws."
Even if deported the workers will still be eligible for back pay.
Black Farmers Sue Over Being Sold Fake Seeds
A group of African-American farmers are suing Stine Seeds for selling them defective Stine Seeds. The farmers say that they were intentionally sold defective seeds at the Mid-South Farm & Gin Show in March 2017.
The farmers allege that they were sold defective seeds so that white farmers could swoop in and buy up their lands.
"Mother nature doesn't discriminate," President of Black Farmers and Agriculturalists Association Thomas Burrell told WMC5 in Memphis. "It doesn't rain on white farms but not black farms. Insects don't [only] attack black farmers' land…why is it then that white farmers are buying Stine seed, and their yield is 60, 70, 80, and 100 bushels of soybeans, and black farmers who are using the exact same equipment with the exact same land, all of a sudden, your seeds are coming up 5, 6, and 7 bushels?"
Only 16,000 Black Farmers Left in the US
The Guardian has a long look this week at why the number of black farmers in the US has plummeted:
The number of black farmers in America peaked in 1920, when there were 949,889. Today, of the country's 3.4 million total farmers, only 1.3%, or 45,508, are black, according to new figures from the US Department of Agriculture released this month. They own a mere 0.52% of America's farmland. By comparison, 95% of US farmers are white.
The black farmers who have managed to hold on to their farms eke out a living today. They make less than $40,000 annually, compared with over $190,000 by white farmers, which is probably because their average acreage is about one-quarter that of white farmers.
As a fourth-generation farmer, Boyd has witnessed other black farmers do the same thing he's done: claw at the dirt in an attempt to hold on to it. And Boyd has devoted himself to helping other black farmers, always remembering the words he heard his grandfather Thomas mumble over and over: "The land don't know color. The land never mistreated me, people do."
Weekend Reads
— Over at Mujerista, Christine Bolaños has a moving profile of Justice for Migrant Women Founder Mónica Ramírez:
Fueled with a desire to seek justice for migrant workers and equipped with the knowledge her education afforded her, Ramírez decided to take action. Today, she is most known for her authorship of the "Dear Sisters" letter published in TIME that helped spark the Time's Up Movement. She has, however, had a multi-decade history of work fighting for the civil and human rights of children, women, workers, Latinxs, and immigrants.
In 2013, she created the first legal project in the United States dedicated to addressing gender discrimination against farmworker women that culminated in the creation of Esperanza: The Immigrant Women's Legal Initiative of the Southern Poverty Law Center.
She founded Justice for Migrant Women and co-founded Alianza Nacional de Campesinos and served as the organization's board president until 2018. She wrote the now-viral "Dear Sisters" letter in that capacity from the perspective of migrant women directed at women in the entertainment industry.
Justice for Migrant Women provides a new model for addressing and advancing migrant women's rights and justice. At the heart of that model is a commitment to ensuring all migrant women are guaranteed their civil rights, including the freedom to work free of sexual harassment, to live and work with dignity and be free of threats both against themselves and their families. The organization achieves this mission through numerous educational initiatives, raising public awareness, and advocating for the rights of migrant women.
— Over at HuffPost, our friend Daniel Marans has a look at how a group of corporate Democrat African-American aligned with Trump supporting Delegates defeated a progressive candidate for speaker of the Maryland House of Delegate:
At one point in the contest, however, efforts to rally black support behind Davis reportedly took an ugly turn. On Monday, Del. Regina Boyce (D), a McIntosh supporter, announced her resignation from the Legislative Black Caucus on the grounds that weeks earlier, Legislative Black Caucus Chair Del. Darryl Barnes (D) warned the caucus that by electing McIntosh, "We are going to let a white lesbian be the speaker of the House." Barnes denied making the comment, but at least two other black lawmakers who were present corroborated Boyce's account.
Jones' victory seemed to provide some satisfaction to all sides with even McIntosh allies noting the historic importance of her ascent.
"Someone pointed out from the House floor, looking around at all the white men looking down at us [in picture frames] from the walls, that that would no longer be the case," Hettleman said. "That's a really important thing."
For more, go to HuffPost.
Over at the New York Times Magazine fellow Woodland Hills alumni LaToya Ruby Frazier and Dan Kaufman, a Payday supporter, have an excellent photo essay on what's happened in Lordstown since the plant has closed:
"Management walks in 15 minutes late," Green recalled, "and they say, 'Hey, we're going to unallocate the plant' — that was it."
Green had never heard the term before, but he soon found out that it meant his members would no longer have a car to build. The Cruze was finished, and G.M. had no plans to make anything else at Lordstown. Green followed the managers to the production floor, where they shut down the assembly line before repeating the same brief message to more than a thousand workers. "Some people started crying, and some people turned white as a ghost and looked like they were going to throw up," Green said. "It felt like, 'Oh, the end is coming.' "
For more go to the New York Times Magazine.
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In the course of a discussion with a friend and a cousin who just received a gift, an argument ensued that people earned the kind of gifts that they received. It was also said that the gifts that some people give indicate the value that they attach to the person they are sending the gift to, but I had thought otherwise until this discussion arose.
I had always thought that a gift was something you received out of the giver's free will and not necessarily being a reward for something that you may have done.
Following the Webster's New World dictionary definition of a gift as "something that a person gives because of friendship, thanks, or love or for some other reasons," I decided to have a rethink about the qualifications for a gift!
Ordinarily, I would give a gift based on the occasion being celebrated, what I can afford and what would be pleasing to the receiver. But one of the two ladies I was discussing with did not think so.
It was her birthday and a male admirer had sent her an expensive perfume and she thought that he was being 'mischievous' with the value of the gift. She believed that her admirer got her the gift as a bait to get her attention.
While my friend thought that it was not out of context for a young man to send a lady he admires such an expensive gift, the receiver of the gift thought that such gifts were only deceitful, because once the purpose for such gifts are achieved, that is goodbye to it!
Considering that a young mom received a gift of plastic bowl during the naming ceremony of her new baby, she felt very offended. She said the gift had no value and showed that the giver did not have regards for her.
Bringing the two different situations as reference points, it becomes inherent that people give gifts based on more personal reasons than others may know.
We didn't mean to take it too seriously, but for purposes of checking some facts, we tried looking at some gifts we had received and those that we had given. Sure, many times, the gifts were valued based on how closely attached a person was to the receiver.
Which of these do you consider in giving a gift?
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Getting tight with the Bible Belt
Another Israeli columnist writes from Washington about MK Benny Elon (National Union) and his relationship with evangelicals in the USA:
"He invests more time and effort than perhaps any other Israeli in nurturing the relationship with Evangelical Christians in the U.S. As minister of tourism during the intifada, Elon promoted visits by Evangelical churches to Israel, and he continues to attend their conferences and speak out against diplomatic compromise on the Land of Israel.
By Nathan Guttman, Haaretz, Feb 17, 2005
Benny Elon reaches out to evangelicals
They unholy relationship between some evangelical leaders and Israel?s right-wing parties is becoming dangerous to the church. A new book by Israeli racist Knesset Member Benny Elon is the latest edition in Christian bookstores in America: "God's Covenant with Israel: Establishing Biblical Boundaries in Today's World".
This un-Christian political book is published just in time for the struggles over Israel's unilateral disengagement plan from Gaza, which Elon is against. Elon writes to evangelicals from one side about the religious and historic ties between the state of Israel and the Jewish people and from the other side, the book speaks about ?anti-Christian theology in Islam and contains a list of Palestinian Authority brutality toward Christians?.
Elon, a rabbi that does not believe in Jesus, asks Christians to "please keep the (Jewish) inhabitants of Gaza and northern Samaria in your hearts and prayers".
Read this unbelievable report by Gil Hoffman, The Jerusalem Post, Feb 11, 2005
"Domus Galilaeae" Welcome Galileans
It was one of those rare hours of joy for some two thousand Christians, mainly from Catholic churches coming from different towns and villages in Galilee to come together to attend the first ceremony in the new "Domus Galilaeae" International Center on the top of the mount of Beatitude near the Sea of Galilee in the north of Israel.
Korazim, Special For Come and See, Jan 12, 2004
Archaeologists discover Siloam Pool remains
Part of the remains of the Siloam Pool - which played a significant role in one of Jesus' miracles as recorded in the Bible's Gospel of John - have been uncovered by archaeologists in Jerusalem.
Just prior to Christmas 2004, spokesmen for Israel's Antiquities Authority announced they were slowly digging out the pool "where water still runs," says a published report by Associated Press.
by Bible Network News
Season of good cheer in a minority within a minority
Israeli Veteran Reporter Jerrold Kessel quit CNN last year and is now writing features on different subjects. He has been following the soccer team of Skahnin that comes from a poor Arab town in Galilee. This team won the Israeli Soccer Cup and represented Israel in Europe. Kessel is writing a "Sakhnin Diary". In his last report, he writes about the Christian population of Sakhnin: 1,200 out of 25,000.
Jerrold Kessel, Haaretz, Jan 3, 2004
Nazareth Village, Re-Creating Jesus' Birth
"Nazareth Village" has been recreated in Israel as an authentic 'first century' village-a place of 'living history'. It looks similar to the way Bethlehem and Nazareth looked during Biblical times, and Interpreters re-enact what Mary and Joseph did.
Nazareth Village brings a bit different kind of Christmas story; it will give you a new perspective on the birth of Jesus.
By Chris Mitchell, CBN, Dec 24, 2004
Jewish Hasidim "celebrate" Christmas in their own special way
An amazing article published in Haaretz by Shahar Ilan that describes the way Jewish Hasidim "celebrate" Christmas: Christmas Eve is one of the few occasions when Hasidim refrain from Torah study, do not conduct weddings or go to the mikveh. But they do play chess and work on their bills.
On Christmas Eve, known in Jewish circles as Nitel Night, the klipot (shells) are in total control. The klipot are parasitical evil forces that attach themselves to the forces of good. According to kabbala (Jewish mysticism), on the night on which "that man" - a Jewish euphemism for Jesus - was born, not even a trace of holiness is present and the klipot exploit every act of holiness for their own purposes.
Shahar Ilan, Haaretz, Dec 24, 2004
Athletes in Action Visit Galilee
Athletes in Action, a ministry for reaching out people with the good news of Jesus through Sport Evangelism visited Galilee this month. During one week they were able to meet some 2000 young people in different schools and sport clubs and even get a TV interview on the national cable Arabic Station.
Special For Come and See, Nov 12, 2004
Clues in cave link site to John the Baptist
The discovery, if confirmed, would be among the most significant breakthroughs for biblical scholars in memory.
By Karin Laub, ASSOCIATED PRESS, August 17, 2004
Palestinian and Israeli kids join together in a Christian camp
Shadia Qubti, Project Coordinator for Musalaha's Summer Camp writes about her experience: "Over thirty Palestinian and Israeli campers joined us for this camp. We asked our campers about what things they have in common, and they all wrote in Arabic and Hebrew: ?Faith in Jesus Christ.? Jesus can break down any barriers and this camp was a living example of that.
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Five doctor of physical therapy students traveled to Mexico in October to help distribute wheelchairs. The trip continued the rich tradition of Pacific's Department of Physical Therapy partnering with Rotary International and Hope Haven West, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing mobility in the developing world.
Wendy Auyoung '19, Ramon Chavez III '19, Allison Daby '19, Allison Snider '19, Mari Takahashi '19 and Cathy Peterson, PT, EdD, ATP, department chair and professor of physical therapy, joined Lonny Davis, founder of Hope Haven West. Completing the team were eight Rotary members. In Mexico, the team worked with Rotary members from local chapters.
"The Rotarians were so hospitable," said Auyoung. "They were so excited for us to come and distribute wheelchairs to people in that area."
The team distributed 340 wheelchairs in seven days in Veracruz City and Coatepec, Mexico.
Wheelchair recipients were pre-selected, on average, a year in advance and chosen based on need. One of the interactions that deeply impacted Snider was a 40-year-old male with a spinal cord injury due to a car accident. "This was his first wheelchair and his accident happened 13 years ago," Snider said.
Takahashi will never forget the experience of customizing a wheelchair for a 13-year-old boy with osteogenesis imperfecta, an inherited disease where one's bones are weak or extremely fragile. She explained that the disease had only affected his lower extremities.
"I was able to provide a wheelchair that fit him perfectly," Takahashi said. "He was so happy. He couldn't stop talking about how excited he was to go back to school, play with his friends and explore the world."
One recipient that made a lasting impression on Auyoung was a 25-year-old male with cerebral palsy and severe scoliosis. She worked with Dr. Peterson for five hours to customize a wheelchair that would allow him to sit upright.
"We constructed this rod-like contraption with a cushioned headrest," Auyoung said. "We fit him ever so perfectly in the wheelchair so the words printed on his shirt, which before had been pointed at his left hip, were completely horizontal. He could literally see the world from a different perspective."
For Snider and Takahashi this was their first time traveling outside the United States.
"I am beyond thankful for this opportunity to put service before myself. I am truly humbled to have had this experience," said Snider.
"This trip has been such a valuable experience with unforgettable memories with my team members and classmates. I will bring these skills into my profession as a physical therapist," said Auyoung.
"The scores we receive on exams don't dictate who we are, it's what we do with this knowledge that can really change us and allow us to change the world," said Daby. "What we do with what we have is what matters."
"I encourage everyone to seek out an opportunity like this," Daby added, "an opportunity to make a trip more than just a trip and help you find your sense of purpose."
Read more about their experiences in their own words on the Beyond Pacific blog.
Five DPT students represented Pacific.
The Veracruz/Coatepec trip marked the 60th Hope Haven West wheelchair distribution.
The team distributed 340 wheelchairs in seven days. Each recipient was given a refurbished wheelchair or a Hope Haven West pediatric wheelchair that was specifically customized for them, a process that took between 30 minutes and five hours.
To date, Hope Haven West has distributed 12,000 wheelchairs.


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Memorial Mass celebrates life of young Catholic woman found dead in Iowa
Mollie Tibbetts, the 20-year-old college student, described as a bright light in the farming community of Brooklyn, Iowa, was abducted and killed in July while jogging just outside of the town. (CNS photo/Social Media via Reuters)
By Barb Arland-Fye • Catholic News Service • Posted August 27, 2018
BROOKLYN, Iowa (CNS) — A mural of a grizzly bear breaking through a brick wall calls attention to visitors in the BGM High School gym.
It seemed a fitting metaphor for the unstoppable spirit of Mollie Tibbetts, whose life was celebrated during a memorial Mass Aug. 26 in the gym.
The 20-year college student, described as a bright light in this farming community of 1,500 people, was abducted and killed in July while jogging just outside of Brooklyn. Her disappearance led to a monthlong search that drew national attention and hundreds of volunteers determined to bring the young college student home.
Farm worker Christhian Rivera, 24, has been charged with first-degree murder. He entered the U.S. illegally seven years ago, a fact that further fueled the immigration debate dividing the nation.
But it was Tibbetts' ability to bring out the best in others that brought 1,500 people to the memorial Mass, with Bishop Thomas R. Zinkula of Davenport, Iowa, presiding and five priests concelebrating. Adults and youths, Catholics, and non-Catholics, sang in the choir. A section of seats was reserved for the Class of 2017, Mollie's class. Hugs were exchanged generously in that section and elsewhere in the packed gym.
It's hard to know what to say when a family loses a loved one in such a way, Bishop Zinkula said as Mass began, noting that it is more important to be present to the family. God also is present with all who mourn Tibbetts' death and shares their pain and sorrow, he said, and the dying and rising of Jesus offers the faithful the passage way into eternal life. "Let's pray Mollie home."
Tibbetts was raised in San Francisco and in her mother Laura Calderwood's hometown of Brooklyn. It was in the small town where Tibbetts loved attending Mass at St. Patrick Church with her grandmother, Judy Calderwood.
Tibbetts grew stronger in her faith during high school, Angie Gritsch, the parish's director of religious education, said, adding that she loved kids and wanted to be a child psychologist. "Her peers looked up to her; she was a mom to everybody. She always had a smile on her face; she always had something good to say about somebody," Gritsch said.
Father Corey Close, St. Patrick's pastor, led a prayer service after Mollie's body was found and gave the homily at her memorial Mass. He said he saw Mollie "as a bright, shining light" and himself as "a dim bulb" who will benefit from having gotten to know more about the young woman preparing to enter her sophomore year at the University of Iowa.
In speaking with Mollie's parents, Father Close said the topic of the mustard seed came up. His heart was drawn to that passage, which he proclaimed in the Gospel at the memorial Mass.
"I began to see Mollie not as a mustard seed, but as a full-grown bush, full of lush greenery, and, more importantly, full of many, many seeds," the priest said. "These seeds are the stories we carry with us today, all of your stories of who she was, and how she touched your life, or the life of one whom you loved."
He said he saw a parallel between Tibbetts and St. Therese of Lisieux, a Carmelite nun of extraordinary joy and energy who died at age 24, but left a lasting legacy of faith and inspiration.
"Who can say what good will come of what Mollie has already given the world? … I have already seen how her passing has touched lives, has changed lives. Look at the good God is working among us here today," Father Close said.
Giving eulogies after Mass were J.R. Glenn, one of Tibbetts' high school teachers; her cousin, Morgan Collum; her brother, Jake; and her father, Rob.
Collum urged the gathering to do right by Tibbetts, to share what they are best at with others — kindness, patience, humor or faith, for example. "Don't be mad at God for taking Mollie from us," Morgan said, choking up. "Praise God for giving us Mollie in the first place."
"Mollie's my hero," said Rob Tibbetts. He encouraged the gathering to turn to celebrating wonderful things: the football team and the wedding the day before of a couple in the assembly who he asked to stand up as everyone applauded. "That's what Mollie would want," he said.
The elder Tibbetts also expressed gratitude for the community support the family received during the intense search for his daughter and paid tribute to family members and other for their roles in Mollie's life. He also made a point of affirming Hispanics in the community, saying they are Iowans too, with the same values.
"Mollie turned a mirror on us. She wanted us to see what we liked about ourselves," Rob Tibbetts said. "Mollie is a composite of all of us."
Arland-Fye is editor of The Catholic Messenger, newspaper of the Diocese of Davenport.
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'Ho Ho Hold that ladder' — What you don't know about Christmas lights could shock you
John Tufts
SAN ANGELO — Each year, hundreds of homes in the San Angelo area are lit with bright, twinkling lights in celebration of the holidays. Less known about this festive tradition of Christmas decorating is the uptick in emergency room visits.
In 2017, about 14,700 people sought emergency room treatment for holiday decorating injuries, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.
That's an average of about 240 injuries per day nationwide in November and December.
The most frequent holiday-related injuries involved falls (41 percent), lacerations (10 percent) and back strains (5 percent), according to CPSC data.
Last year, three deaths involved falling from ladders.
RELATED STORY: It's the most dangerous time of the year: crime prevention tips to keep the holidays safe
"Always use a sturdy ladder, and never hang lights without two people where one person is holding the ladder. It's just dangerous not to," said Tam Honaker, owner of Farmer's Daughter Landscape & Garden Center, which offers professional installation services for Christmas lights.
"We've been doing this for over 15 years," said Honaker, who said crews with Farmer's Daughter will install custom-fit interior and exterior Christmas lights over the next few weeks for about 100 residential and commercial properties in the Concho Valley.
Here are safety tips San Angelo residents should follow if they plan to put up their own Christmas lights.
Before you install, inspect everything
Whether they're new or last year's lights, owners should check each set for broken or cracked sockets, frayed or bare wires, or loose connections, according to the CPSC.
Residents should only use holiday lights tested for safety by a nationally recognized testing laboratory, where lights for both indoor and outdoor usage must meet strict standards that testing laboratories are able to verify.
The CPSC recommends homeowners make sure the lights they put outside have been certified for outdoor use and are plugged into a ground-fault circuit interrupter-protected receptacle or a portable GFCI.
Check each extension cord to make sure it is rated for the intended use and is in good condition. Do not use cords with cuts or signs of fraying.
"If it's a frayed cord, throw it away or repair the cord properly," Honaker said.
Don't plug too many lights into one extension cord
The CPSC recommends homeowners use no more than three standard-size sets of lights per extension cord.
"If you have incandescent lights, never go more than three strings per extension cord," Honaker said. "You can cause a fire."
As an alternative to Christmas lights with incandescent bulbs, many homeowners are turning to LED lights.
LED holiday lights typically cost more upfront than incandescent strands, but they consume 80 percent less energy than their traditional counterparts, and they last 25 times longer, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.
Wrap it up, and count the wattage
Rainy weather can pose a serious hazard if moisture comes into contact with exposed metal or wiring on outdoor extension cords. Honaker recommends homeowners use electrical tape to reduce the chance for electric shock or fire.
"Wrap electrical tape around any outdoor extension cords where they connect to help waterproof them," Honaker said.
Honaker said homeowners who set their Christmas lights on a timer should be mindful of how many watts the timer will handle.
"If putting the lights on a timer, they need to make sure the wattage of the lights doesn't exceed the total wattage of the timer, especially if people are using incandescent bulbs," Honaker said. "The timer could blow."
Choose the right tools to hang lights
Fasten outdoor lights securely to trees, walls or other measures of firm support to protect from wind damage. A frayed wire after time can pose the risk of fire or electric shock.
When hanging lights, Honaker cautioned residents against using a staple gun, which could also fray the wires.
"Safer alternatives include gutter clips and shingle tabs," Honaker said.
Before bed, turn off the lights ... preferably with a power strip
To avoid the risk of fire if an electrical short were to occur overnight, the CPSC recommends turning off all holiday lights on Christmas trees and other decorations when you go to bed or leave the house.
Even when turned off, your lights are still using energy. This is called phantom energy, and it costs Americans $100 a year on average, according to Energy.gov.
If your lights have an on/off switch, save money by plugging them in to a power strip and turning the strip off when not in use.
Professional help with Christmas lights
Farmer's Daughter Landscape & Garden Center
What: Christmas decorations and Christmas light installation
Where: 4044 S. Bryant Blvd.
When: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday and 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday
Sources: United States Consumer Product Safety Commission, U.S. Department of Energy
READ MORE: Ready, set, decorate! Five San Angelo businesses that can help you get ready for Christmas


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Distance learning boosted at Leeds Met with new director
Leeds Metropolitan University has appointed Edmund Hewson as its new Director of Distance Learning.
Edmund joins the University from BPP Professional Education, where he is currently Chairman of BPP Learning Media and BPP International. Edmund trained to be a Chartered Accountant with Ernst and Whinney (now part of Ernst and Young), qualifying in 1986. After a spell at Reuters Holdings plc, he joined BPP Publishing as a technical author in 1989.
With the formation of BPP Learning Media in 2006, Edmund became Managing Director, and then Chairman. Edmund became Director of Group Strategy in February 2010. As Chairman of BPP International, Edmund has been responsible for BPP's international offices in Ireland, the Channel Isles, Malta and Central and Eastern Europe and China.
Sally Glen, Deputy Vice-Chancellor Student Experience at Leeds Met, commented: "We are delighted to have appointed a candidate of Edmund's calibre. Edmund brings a wealth of experience within the field of distance learning and is looking forward to working with colleagues and sharing his expertise. Edmund is spending a day with colleagues in June and takes-up post in mid-July."
Edmund added: "With flexible distance learning, we can make a top quality higher education with life-changing opportunities which are available to all. It's not just about distinctive content and great service: wherever they are in the world, our distance learning students should feel part of the Leeds Met community. I'm really delighted to be able to join the University on this exciting journey."


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Should Israel give in and risk its future?
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Goldins' case will be presented to the American public
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'Look what they're saying in the US about the persecution'
Tal Polon ,3/3/2019, 10:43 AM
Fox News anchor visits Joshua's Tomb
Pete Hegseth, accompanied by IDF soldiers, visited the site in Samaria "to pay homage to one of the greatest warriors"Eliran Aharon, 2/22/2018, 12:04 AM
'Eternal bond that we share between our nations draws me back'
Fox News anchor Pete Hegseth speaks at Arutz Sheva conference. 'History is not over, America is not inevitable.'Mordechai Sones, 2/19/2018, 9:21 PM
Arutz Sheva conference on US-Israel relations
Senior Fox News anchor Pete Hegseth, dignitaries and guests gather in Jerusalem to discuss bilateral relations, media and Jerusalem.Eliran Baruch, 2/19/2018, 6:47 PM
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Arutz Sheva speaks with Pete Hegseth of Fox News about his upcoming Israel trip and the question of the embassy move.Eliran Baruch, 12/5/2017, 10:48 AM
Orthodox Jewish Chamber of Commerce met with Fox & Friends
Jewish organization discussed economic issues with Fox & Friends anchor prior to major Trump interview.Uzi Baruch - Mordechai Sones, 10/1/2017, 10:42 AM
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When the enemy (Iran) comes to town, we should give them what they deserve Pete Hegseth, 9/25/2016, 6:41 AM
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After exploring Israel with Dr. Joe Frager and his Fox News team, Pete describes his new perspective on the land he learned to respect.Arutz Sheva Staff, 8/29/2016, 10:08 PM
Fox News, Pete Hegseth, visit the Jews of Hevron
In their ongoing research on Israel, Pete Hegseth and the team from Fox News toured the embattled Jewish sector of Hevron.Eliran Aharon, 8/18/2016, 7:11 PM
Watch: Fox News tours Oz Vega'on memorial park
Oz Vega'on nature reserve, dedicated to three murdered Israeli teenagers, had special guests today: Pete Hegseth and his team from Fox News.Eliran Aharon, 8/18/2016, 5:33 PM
Pete Hegseth in Jerusalem - in pictures
Photos: Dinner in honor of Pete Hegseth, Check out the pictures of Peter's visit in Israel and the dinner in his honor.Arutz Sheva, 8/17/2016, 5:51 PM
'America is asleep to its existential threat'
Fox News' Pete Hegseth spoke last night at a Jerusalem dinner in his honor. MKs, security members, and other officials were in attendance.Eliran Aharon , 8/17/2016, 2:06 PM
'Israel will never be alone'
Activist May Golan spoke at a Jerusalem dinner to honor Fox News' Pete Hegseth, together with MKs, security establishment officials.Eliran Aharon, 8/17/2016, 2:00 PM
'What happens in Europe, soon in the US'
Lisa Daftari of Fox News spoke at a Jerusalem dinner to honor Pete Hegseth, together with MKs, security members, and other officials.Eliran Aharon, 8/17/2016, 1:57 PM
'Israelis try to frighten themselves'
MK Avi Dichter spoke at a Jerusalem dinner to honor Fox News' Pete Hegseth, together with other MKs, security members, and other officials.Eliran Aharon, 8/17/2016, 1:38 PM
'Terror is a new kind of war - and we're winning'
Sharren Haskel spoke at a Jerusalem dinner in honor of Fox News' Pete Hegseth, together with MKs, security members, and other officials.Eliran Aharon, 8/17/2016, 1:26 PM
'Islam wants to conquer the world - politically'
Dr. Ephraim Herrera spoke at a Jerusalem dinner in honor of Fox News' Pete Hegseth.Eliran Aharon, 8/17/2016, 1:08 PM
'Iran deal was a horrible and tragic mistake'
Fox News personality rips Obama's pursuit of Iran nuclear deal, says Israeli sovereignty should be respected in Jerusalem.Arutz Sheva Staff, 8/16/2016, 7:27 PM
'I'm here to tell the world the truth'
Fox News journalists visit Israel in effort to get to the 'ground truth' of the reality as it really is, not as presented in the media.Eliran Aharon, 8/15/2016, 8:11 PM


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I saw Eric Haines (Cute but corny), Cirqunique (I did not see this last year... it was enjoyable), Iharp extreme (I think they added the "extreme" to try to generate hype... as it was just typical harp music), Albert Lucas (they put him in worst theater for a juggler... but it was fun). I had the meat lovers nachos and that was good.
General Silver Dollar City Talk / Re: Season Passes?
I actually called last Saturday because I ordered Jan 4 and never even got a confirmation email that order went through. Apparently they have been swamped as last Saturday they had just started running the passes ordered 1/2. I did get mine today, though.
My friend and I went Wednesday night for the first time this year. She had gone with me last year to see the Midtown area as well... It is a lot.
Everything outside of Midtown seems kind of like an afterthought. Like... we had some extra lights let's throw them here. I think the downside of Midtown being SO bright and SO much is that everything else seems drab. And not having the lights across lake silver to reflect in the drained lake silver is kind of sad too.
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It will definitely be used from a landmark standpoint. I just have a feeling it is not going to be kept up and will be an eyesore in a few years.
I went on Sunday the 16th. Got there a bit before opening. Quite a lot more traffic than I was expecting but it was quite warm. I have taken to riding my motorcycle when going alone and that makes getting parked and leaving SO much easier.
Each year it seems like there are less and less craftspeople... But I think the truth of the matter is that the last couple years the craftspeople there just did not have crafts I was interested in. I am more into paintings and photos and there were just a few of each. I saw the Farnum Family which I was skeptical of at first and then they played a version of "Pancho and Lefty" that I enjoyed immensely. Sawy The Western Flyer as well but I have trouble getting into Texas swing music. I intended to see the western show but the lines for it were past the barn and I was not in the mood to stand in the sun and wait.
I am hoping to get back in early October when they switch out the craftspeople but not sure my schedule is going to allow that.
I did manage to finally get a recording of the train whistle and it rolling by sans conductors... Hoping to use this in a song. I stood near Red Gold Hall and waited until it came around that bend. I would have preferred the longer whistle earlier in the ride, but figured trying to ride and record would be ruined by all of the people on the train.
I went to Dollywood for the first time last Thanksgiving. I also could say I was a bit disappointed. I am not much into rides anymore and it just didn't have a lot to fill my time. Shows did not seem as good. I am sure it does have its merits and I am sure if I rode the rides I would probably feel differently. I went because I was driving cross country from Springfield, MO to Charleston, SC and then to St. Augustine, FL and then back. But I will say I probably won't go back at least not soon. Although I would love to hit up their bluegrass festival too.
I will say I was doing all this traveling and all alone so that probably biased it some too.
General Silver Dollar City Talk / Running sound?
I think that music ties to a different time... I am 46 but all of my friends are 26-30 and they detest cajun music. And I think that sometimes you just have to move on.
Springfield has White River Brewing, Tie and Timber, 4x4 brewing, Mother's. Springfield Brewing company, and I think one more. There is also a distillery at Copper Run (about 10 miles out of Branson) and another distillery in downtown Springfield called Missouri Spirits.
I've not been to Tie And Timber or 4x4 but my friends like both. White River has some great ones and Mother's tap room is always good. Both of the distillery's are outstanding.
Also a TON of original music in Springfield. Hit up Commercial St. and got to White River Brewing and Moon City Pub and Lindberg's and eat at Pizza House or Cafe Cusco.


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Palm Springs police reopen Gene Autry Trail after rollover traffic collision
Shane Newell
Palm Springs police reopened all lanes of Gene Autry Trail north of Via Escuela around 6:30 p.m. Tuesday after investigating a rollover traffic collision.
The road was closed for about 90 minutes.
Sgt. Mike Casavan said at least two people were taken to the hospital.
This story will be updated when more information is available.
Shane Newell covers breaking news and the western Coachella Valley cities of Palm Springs, Cathedral City and Desert Hot Springs. He can be reached at Shane.Newell@DesertSun.com, (760) 778-4649 or on Twitter at @journoshane.


I agree with your sentiment about starting in a city other than New York to get experience and stage time. Philadelphia is 99 miles away and has a top flight club in Helium and lots of indie shows. It's much easier to get stage time- and more of it- than it is in the crowded but exceptionally talented New York scene.
The line-ups at the PIT mic is a great example of how overcrowded the New York scene is. There's so many talented comics that comics some times only get 90seconds. 90 seconds! People wait hours to do a minute and a half. Any longer and it would be a 4 hour mic. Comics with tv credits. It's nuts.
LA open mics are also stacked with talent but they have a sign-up/ lottery process that can be maddening.
In short, the most important part is the stage time. Go where ever that is most readily available.


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First visit YouTube.com and search the video that you like to convert.
Paste this URL in converter text box and then click on a button, most website use "Convert" title on the button.
Yes, finish you have done now share or enjoy music on local devices.


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Understanding the work principles of YouTube's algorithm and how it ranks videos is essential for creators' growth on the platform. In this article, we will dive deep into the factors that have the power to determine the future of your content on YouTube and explore how the platform algorithm has evolved over the years. Hop on and get ready for some revelations!
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De Coupe de France 2013/14 was de 97ste editie van dit voetbalbekertoernooi en stond open voor alle bij de Franse voetbalbond (FFF) aangesloten clubs, inclusief voor clubs uit de Franse overzeese departementen.

Het bekertoernooi omvatte 14 ronden, waarvan de eerste zes in regionaal verband. De clubs van de CFA 2 begonnen op 16 september in de derde ronde aan het toernooi, de clubs van de CFA 1 op 15 september in de vierde ronde, en de clubs van de Championnat National op 29 september in de vijfde ronde. De clubs van de Ligue 2 stroomden in de zevende ronde in, evenals zeven bekerwinnaars van zeven overzeese gebiedsdelen. Vanaf de negende ronde namen de 20 clubs van de Ligue 1 deel aan het toernooi.

Titelverdediger is Girondins de Bordeaux. De bekerwinnaar plaatst zich hiermee tevens voor de groepsfase van de UEFA Europa League 2014/15.

Uitslagen

Achtste finales

Kwartfinale

Halve finale

Finale

Zie ook
 Ligue 1 2013/14
 Coupe de la Ligue 2013/14

Coupe de France naar seizoen
Bekervoetbal 2013/14

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The Recording Academy Partners With Color of Change on New Diversity Initiatives
"It's a lot of excitement, but we have a clear understanding that the community is asking us for action," says the Grammys' new diversity chief Valeisha Butterfield Jones
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As the music industry continues to explore ways of addressing longstanding racial inequality, the Recording Academy is partnering with civil rights nonprofit Color of Change for a series of new initiatives, atop a $1 million donation to the organization, the two organizations announced on Tuesday.
Color of Change will work with the Grammys' parent organization on several diversity-based initiatives. It will help the Academy create a black music advisory group, which aims to get more black voters into the Academy, as well as develop a diversity summit for the music industry and tackle legislative issues. Color of Change will also help create the Academy's inclusion rider, which will set internal diversity goals for the music group and give the organization a plan for how to implement the changes. Valeisha Butterfield Jones, the Academy's recently appointed chief diversity officer, tells Rolling Stone that this rider will be completed in the fourth quarter of 2020.
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Butterfield Jones and Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr. are both thinking critically "about how this organization that's 63 years old can be more diverse and inclusive," she says. "A part of that is [figuring out] how we strengthen our relationship with the black music community, which is of course a cornerstone of all music worldwide. It's about having honest and transparent conversations about where we've been, but more importantly where we're headed. We want to build with everyone."
The new music advisory group, which is still in early stages, aims to address a longstanding criticism about who's casting votes for the Grammy Awards each year. Over the years, critics have accused the Academy of being biased and insular in its voting process — and particularly when it comes to black artists and black music industry employees. Butterfield Jones says the purpose of this new group is to increase awareness about who is eligible to vote and reiterate the importance of voting so that ballots represent a more diverse voter pool. (The Academy membership currently totals into the thousands, but the voting process is distinct from the process of becoming a member.)
Before Butterfield Jones was hired into the new role earlier this year, the Recording Academy housed multiple diversity-related controversies in a row — one due to former CEO Neil Portnow commenting that women needed to "step up" in the industry, which led to his departure from his post in 2019, and another one more recently when the Academy placed Deborah Dugan, its Portnow replacement, on leave earlier this year right before the annual awards show; Dugan subsequently filed a complaint with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, detailing multiple allegations of organizational misconduct, along with sexual assault allegations against Portnow and Academy general counsel Joel Katz.
Portnow and Katz denied the allegations, and the Academy has repeatedly defended its voting process — but has acknowledged it needs more transparency. Butterfield Jones echoed that sentiment.
"It's a lot of excitement, but we have a clear understanding that the community is asking us for action. That means increased transparency," Butterfield Jones says. "With the recent rulebook announcement, we feel that we've started to take some really bold steps as an organization to be more transparent about our rules and our practices. Transparency is definitely something we're hearing a lot of feedback about."
The Academy is still searching for its next full-time CEO; Harvey Mason Jr. has held the interim post since Dugan's ouster at the beginning of the year. Butterfield Jones, who is on the committee for the CEO search, says the Academy will be looking through a diverse slate of candidates, and that the CEO will be announced sometime in the first quarter of 2021, around the Grammy Award ceremony, which is currently scheduled for January 31st, 2021.
Today's projects aren't the first diversity-related shift the Academy has recently announced. In June, the Academy renamed the Grammy Award for "Urban Contemporary Album" to "Progressive R&B."
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6th Math: In class students finished the even #'s on ws pages 44/54, so........they should have NO HW if they used their time wisely.
I apologize for being offline since the last assignments were posted. We had some internet problems and end of the day activities that threw us all off schedule.
6th Math: Multiplying/Dividing Integers Packet. Do the first side of the Multiplication page and the first side of the division page in the packet.


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Why all this fuss over Imran Khan's Iran visit?
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By Imtiaz Gul
Politics and journalism in Pakistan touched new lows following PM Imran Khan's Tehran visit. Seasoned politicians and "know-all" journalists descended to new levels when nit-picking Khan's statements on joint industrial zones and Pakistan's counter terror efforts. With this, rational and objective discourse gave way to extremely politicise and parochial conversation in the media.
Either were these leaders and anchors acting out of their dislike for Khan or out of sheer ignorance?
Multiple factors weighed heavily on Khan when he spoke to the press alongside President Hasan Rouhani. He was visibly tense and struggling to figure out as to how to respond to some of President Rouhani's assertions on some issues that both sides discussed.
Insiders tell us that Rouhani was publicly making commitments that both sides did discuss but never agreed to on the spot.
The idea of a Joint Rapid Response Force to combat terrorism, for example, did come up for discussions but actualisation of the idea is subject to agreement on a multitude of factors, diplomatic sources said. Discussions on proscribed organisations was productive but not the way the Iranian president projected it.
Rouhani shocked everyone, including the prime minister, when he announced both countries had agreed to form the anti-terror force. It was like "loose deliveries bowled by Rouhani" (distressed because of US sanctions), said an official.
Foreign office and military officials accompanying the Prime Minister insist that the "PM handled this provocative situation very well in the given circumstances."
On the other hand, detractors at home lunged at the PM's mention of "non-state actors and actions against them" as something treasonous and many equated it to the infamous "Dawn Leaks".
It amounts to quite an immature as well as amateurish postulation. Should the Prime Minister have shouted back like panellists do in TV talk shows? Certainly not.
No foreign media picked up the PM's statement ("We will not allow any militant group to operate from our soil. We will not allow our soil to be used by anyone against anyone") but the Indians and most Pakistani papers, some of which turned it into a super headline. This way they ignored the entire context of the talks, and used it as yet another opportunity to run down Pakistan's image by denigrating the person of the prime minister.
This headlining and clatter about contentious issues also ignored the details that FM Qureshi had given to media last week as to how attackers of Ormara used camps on Iranian side to plot attacks in Balochistan, and that was the common lead of all foreign media.
Hardly do they realise that what Nawaz Sharif conveyed through the Dawn newspaper in a very surreptitious way, apparently via his daughter, was an attempt to arraign and defame he Pakistani military establishment for "its support" to the non-state actors. The "leak" was clearly intended to drag the army's name. What the PM said in Tehran, in the presence of the ISI chief, simply resonated the paradigm shift that the country has been undergoing, also under the pressures coming from the Financial Action Task Force (FATF).
Secondly – and this is what most critics are missing – Imran Khan never said that state institutions were in any way supporting terrorists outfits that are operating out of Pakistan. He simply stated the obvious; Punjabi, Pashtun, Baloch and Mohajir non-state actors have been operating in different parts of the country. Everybody in and outside the country knows it.
Why the big fuss then?
Khan simply reiterated that the government and its affiliate institutions are doing whatever they can to demobilise, dismantle, and eliminate these groups.
Because of meanwhile inter-twined interests with China, Pakistan is gradually doing what it needs to do to satisfy people at home as well as critics abroad. This is what Khan conveyed to the Iranians and will do the same when he meets the Chinese leadership in a couple of days.
The Iranian president – in front of the press – in a typical arrogant Iranian way attempted to take a one-sided approach, where he expressed his reservations vis-à-vis Pakistan, but totally ignored Pakistan's concerns as well as limitations in the current circumstances.
The Iranians need to understand – and the Chinese leadership has already understood it – that terrorism across the Pak-Iran border is complex and inextricably linked to regional geo-politics.
Iranian leaders cannot look at the troubles at Iran-Pakistan border in isolation of its problems and relations with the United States, Russia and India. The entire region is overflowing with conflicting geo-political manoeuvres and an embattled country such as Pakistan would do only this much.
They simply cannot close their eyes to the so-called "ring of fire" that India or others have laid around Pakistan (hostile Bangladesh, troubled and violence-hit western border, southwester border i.e. Iran and Chabahar port and a continuously hot eastern border).
Khan's visit to Tehran stands out on two counts; for the first time, both had substantive discussion on cross -border terrorism. The second outcome relates to agreement on the decision to – as soon as possible – open two new international border points for greater flow of people and goods on the 920-km border.
This is something that offers a win-win for both countries because of the geographical proximity.
Also, one would hope that Iranians don't look at this as a one-way relationship. Nor should they expect from Pakistan to embrace their wishes lock stock and barrel.
Tehran should not expect Pakistan – a country that has survived terrorist monsters, external proxies and economic adversity – will look after Iranian interests at the cost of its own interests, i.e. head-on confrontation with the United States.
The writer is Executive Director, CRSS
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The jurist was retained as administrator of Isabelle McKinley's estate in 1998 and remained in that role after a judicial appointment in 2009, according to a complaint made public Tuesday by the Advisory Committee on Judicial Conduct.
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A New Jersey judge who continued as administrator of a client's estate for 13 years after rising to the bench has been hit with an ethics complaint.
Mary Thurber of Bergen County Superior Court is accused of breaching a rule barring judges from being administrators or executors of an estate, except for a member of the judge's family. She was retained as administrator of Isabelle McKinley's estate in 1998 and remained in that role after her judicial appointment in 2009, according to a complaint made public Tuesday by the Advisory Committee on Judicial Conduct. Thurber remained in that role until she was discharged in April 2022, the complaint said.
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Kylie was a TA working towards her PhD in a top secret research lab running experiments with a genetic transmogrification ray. Life was good until the day she accidentally became the subject of one of her experiments. Now she's grown a big surprise between her legs as a result of meddling with mad science! Life has more or returned to normal for Kylie. If regularly hooking up with Breanne, her former enemy turned lover, and trying to hide the big secret between her legs from the world can be considered normal. Only it's difficult to hide that secret when Breanne keeps pulling her into new and dangerous lust-fueled situations. Like getting frisky at a late-night TA study session that no one showed up for when a freshman hottie running late walks in and catches them in the middle of a very practical anatomy on.
Breanne has naughty ideas about what to do with this undergrad hottie. Naughty ideas that go against the university ethics code about TA/undergrad fraternization and have Kylie worried about losing her TA position and revealing her secret. Only that big secret is the one calling the shots with passion, lust, and desire winning out over rationality as Kylie allows herself to be pulled into a hot and totally forbidden TA/undergrad fantasy.


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I spotted this guy when we were in Istanbul, Turkey, in the Beyoglu area of the city – a younger, more modern area full of shops, restaurants, and kiosks packed with chocolate!
The chocolate is sold in nondescript aluminum foil, and perhaps that might fool you into thinking it's cheap. It's not (though it's also not expensive) and it's quite good!
Let's get a closer look….white, dark, and milk chocolate studded with hazelnuts, almonds, pistachios or just plain.
If you were working there, which kind of chocolate would be mysteriously "Low on Inventory" at the end of the day?
YUM! I got so hungry looking at your site! I am a chocoholic and I lOVE dark chocolate! I am also an Italian girl from NY and just got a package from my family from Arthur Avenue, Little Italy. Cheeses and large olives among other things.
I am salivating!!! That looks so delicious. The plain old mild chocolate would be gone in seconds maybe the one with almonds too. Wow that guy must have willpower… no wait he's a guy. I bet there wasn't a single women working these chocolate kiosks were there?
Yikes! I would leave the inventory liquidated, but delicious!
Great pics! We love Istanbul…didn't sample any of the chocolate but will try to do that next time.
MMMMMM. Thanks for the info. I am visiting Istambul next week and definitely it will be one of my stops. .Thanks again.


Dianne Feinstein, the Senate Judiciary Committee's ranking member, has taken the lead in advancing Senate Democrats' blanket obstruction of judicial nominees. Today, during the second committee business meeting in as many weeks, she decried the confirmation of judges over the objection of their home-state senators, in this case Ninth Circuit nominees Daniel Collins and Kenneth Lee. Her position: the blue slip should serve as a home-state senator's veto over judicial nominations, including to circuit courts of appeals.
Democrats have repeatedly peddled a revisionist history that inaccurately casts the blue slip as a veto. I have already explained why they are wrong here and here—why the blue slip, a tradition of senatorial courtesy and not a rule, was designed to encourage pre-nomination consultation. Over the century since that tradition appeared in 1917, only two chairmen, Senators James Eastland and Patrick Leahy, treated the courtesy as a veto. Eastland, a segregationist Democrat from Mississippi, did so to block nominees sympathetic to civil rights. Leahy, for his part, expressed during his own tenure that he would not tolerate the abuse of the blue slip to delay or block nominees.
Feinstein cannot credibly claim the administration failed to consult her on the Ninth Circuit. The incoming White House Counsel met with her three days before President Trump was inaugurated to discuss Ninth Circuit and California district court vacancies. In July 2017, the White House provided her a list of five prospects for the Ninth Circuit, including Collins and Lee, and offered to nominate whomever she preferred from that list.
For nearly a year, they followed with numerous requests for feedback on the list and received none. Then Feinstein insisted in a June 2018 meeting with the White House Counsel that the president draw his nominations from an entirely different slate of prospects taken from her in-state judicial selection commission. She did not offer significant feedback on the actual Trump list. She now opposes Collins and Lee without ever having met with them during the nomination process. This, of course, is just one sorry chapter in the broader narrative of the Democrats' wholesale obstruction of judicial nominees.
As a member of the Judiciary Committee, I believe our duty is either to confirm or reject a nominee based on an informed judgment that he or she is either fit or not fit to serve; to listen to concerns and responses, to examine the evidence presented at a hearing, and to have a rationale for determining whether or not an individual nominee should serve as a district court judge or circuit court judge or even a U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
In my view, the rationale behind the blue slip process is faulty. The process was designed to allow home state Senators—who may in some instances know the nominee better than the rest of the Senate—to have a larger say in whether the nominee moves forward. More often than not, however, this power is and will be used to stop nominees for political or other reasons having nothing to do with qualifications.
As a matter of fact, the Member who uses the blue slip, who doesn't send it in, or sends it in negatively, may never have even met the nominee.
If legitimate reasons to defeat a nominee do exist, those reasons can be shared with the Judiciary Committee in confidence, and decisions can be made based on that information—by the entire Committee.
The blue slip process as it now stands is open to abuse.
I would join with those . . . on the Judiciary Committee who would move to abolish the blue slip.
The nomination system is a national disgrace. It encourages bullies and emboldens demagogues, silences the voices of responsibility, and nourishes the lowest forms of partisan combat. It uses innocent citizens as pawns in politicians' petty games and stains the reputations of good people. It routinely violates fundamental democratic principles, undermines the quality and consistency of public management, and breaches simple decency.
Question: What would the Feinstein of 2001 have to say about the Feinstein of 2019?