To approve as a correct record the minutes of the meeting held on 8 January 2019.
The Chair informed Members that the session on the number of children becoming Looked After, which had taken place the previous week, had been very useful and that the presentation slides had been circulated to all Members.
This report provides an update on the Council's financial position and sets out next steps in the budget process, including scrutiny of the draft budget proposals and Directorate Business Plan reports by this Committee.
Further to item CYP/18/63, the Committee received a report of the Chief Executive and City Treasurer which provided an update on the Council's financial position and set out the next steps in the budget process, including scrutiny of the draft budget proposals and Directorate Business Plan reports by the Committee.
The Committee also received a report of the Strategic Director for Children's and Education Services which set out in broad terms the directorate's key priorities, key activities and revenue and capital strategy for 2019-20; within the context of the Directorate Business Plan for the period 2017-20 and proposed savings. In addition, the report set out both the progress made to date in delivering identified savings and focus for the final year of the three-year plan; refreshing the Directorate's Business Plan for 2018-20 in the context of changing resources, challenges and opportunities.
The Committee also received a report of the Director of Education which provided a summary of the confirmed Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG) grant allocation from the 2019-20 settlement announced on the 16 December 2018 and the budget allocation across individual school budgets (ISB) and Council retained schools budget (RSB) which was reported to Schools Forum on 14 January 2019.
The Committee was asked to consider and make recommendations to the Executive on the budget proposals which were within its remit and to comment on the Directorate Business Plans which have been designed to ensure the Council invested in the services that were valued by its residents, achieving both high quality services and outcomes for residents as well as a balanced budget.
The Executive Member for Children's Services, the Executive Member for Finance and Human Resources and the Executive Member for Schools, Culture and Leisure outlined the context of the reports, in particular the financial challenges the Council was facing. The Strategic Director for Children's and Education Services and the Head of Finance provided Members with an overview of the reports.
· To thank Executive Members and officers for their hard work in developing the draft budget proposals and business plans in difficult financial circumstances.
The Strategic Director for Children's and Education Services reported that there was an increased demand for school places for children with SEND and drew Members' attention to the work taking place to increase the number of places in special schools and alternative provision; however, he reported that the aim was that children with SEND be integrated into mainstream schools wherever possible. The Head of Finance reported that, while school funding had increased, the number of pupils had also risen. ... view the full minutes text for item 9.
This presentation provides proxy indicators on progress to improve children's services.
The Committee received a presentation from the Deputy Director of Children's Services which provided proxy indicators on progress to improve children's services.
• The formulation of the new Inclusion Strategy.
• When was the Inclusion Strategy due to be published.
The Deputy Director of Children's Services clarified that the data was a snapshot from a particular day, not aggregated figures. The Director of Children's and Education Services reported that the Council had a Casework Team which dealt with children who were Missing From Education. He informed Members that children who left the city remained on their caseload until the Council found out where they were, for example, if a new school requested their records or if it was confirmed that the child had left the country. He reported that the team undertook enquiries with a range of bodies, including the UK Border Agency, other local authorities and the police to locate children. He suggested that the Committee might want to consider having a report on the strengthening of the safeguarding arrangements in relation to this. He informed Members that Early Help was not a service but a way of working and that the focus was on effective partnership working. The Executive Member for Children's Services informed Members about a recent school visit he had undertaken and advised Members that schools were already doing a lot of work to support families which was not currently recorded in the Early Help data. The Chair noted the value of visiting schools and reported that a date would be arranged for the Committee to visit St Brigid's RC Primary School.
The Strategic Director of Children's and Education Services reported that the Inclusion Strategy should be ready in time for the Committee's May 2019 meeting.
1. To receive a report at a future meeting on the systems in place to safeguard children who are Missing From Education and whose whereabouts are unknown.
2. To receive the Inclusion Strategy at a future meeting.
3. To request that a visit be arranged to St Brigid's RC Primary School.
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This report provides an update on the services and interventions supporting children on the edge of care (at risk of becoming 'looked after'). The report covers the range of approaches utilised and the impact achieved from the services and interventions, and outlines new innovations being developed in Greater Manchester. The report addresses challenges and provides evidence of impact and value for money from the interventions.
The Committee received a report of the Strategic Director of Children's Services which provided an update on the services and interventions supporting children on the edge of care (at risk of becoming 'looked after'). The report covered the range of approaches utilised and the impact achieved from the services and interventions, and outlined new innovations being developed in Greater Manchester. The report addressed challenges and provided evidence of impact and value for money from the interventions.
The Manager of Alonzi House outlined the services that Alonzi House provided to families whose children were at risk of becoming 'looked after' and provided anonymised examples of families that had been supported. She informed Members how staff built relationships with the families, listened to the views of the child and the parents to understand what was going on within the family and supported them to work through their problems.
The Strategic Head of Early Help reported that Alonzi House already had a lot of elements of the "No Wrong Door" model. She informed Members that the Council would retain the best parts of Alonzi House's current work but that this new model provided the opportunity to do more, for example, in relation to services for young people with complex mental health problems. She outlined the work taking place with partners to progress this and reported that this model was expected to be fully implemented by April 2019.
1. To thank the Manager of Alonzi House for her hard work and to request that she and the Strategic Head of Early Help pass on the Committee's thanks to all staff working at Alonzi House and in Early Help.
2. To request a further report in the new municipal year to update Members on the progress and impact of this work.
3. To request that a visit be arranged to Alonzi House.
This report and presentation provide information on the outcome of work by Manchester City Council, Manchester Health and Care Commissioning and Greater Manchester Police, in consultation with partners and existing Safeguarding Children and Adult Board members, to review existing arrangements, taking into account strengths, areas for improvement and opportunities to align with wider strategic objectives and plans.
Commissioning (MHCC) and Greater Manchester Police (GMP), in consultation with partners and existing Safeguarding Children and Adult Board members, to review existing arrangements, taking into account strengths, areas for improvement and opportunities to align with wider strategic objectives and plans.
• Transitional and implementation arrangements.
• How GMP would be involved in this work.
Professor Craig Harris from MHCC reported that the proposed structure was simpler than the previous one. He reported that each Board had a lead organisation, with a lead officer assigned, and that the terms of reference and membership would be developed. He reported that the new arrangements brought together the Children's and Adults' Safeguarding Boards and would reduce duplication and enable members of these Boards to focus on strategic rather than operational work. He outlined the involvement of GMP in the new safeguarding arrangements. The Strategic Director of Children's and Education Services reported that GMP were aligning themselves to the Council's locality social work offices and would be building stronger relationships with the social work teams, which would have a positive impact in areas such as domestic abuse.
1. To welcome the new safeguarding arrangements outlined in the report.
2. To request an annual report and an update report.
This report provides the Committee with details of key decisions that fall within the Committee's remit and an update on actions resulting from the Committee's recommendations. The report also includes the Committee's work programme, which the Committee is asked to amend as appropriate and agree.
A report of the Governance and Scrutiny Support Unit was submitted. The overview report contained key decisions within the Committee's remit, responses to previous recommendations and the Committee's work programme, which the Committee was asked to approve.
To note the report and agree the work programme.


I always enjoy exploring Sanford. This historic Florida town nestled alongside Lake Monroe has a lot to offer. The town is known as the "Historic Gateway City" and is filled with historic buildings. The downtown offers some great places to shop and dine.
Sanford is also a cultural hub for the area with the Wayne Densch Performing Arts Center and the monthly Sanford Art Walk. It's also a local food and craft beer destination.
Here are some of my discoveries in Sanford.
Enjoying #nature in #florida I love being out on the water. #Wildlife is so wonderful to watch.
Love Sanford's #craftbeer scene🍺Doing a little exploring in this crafty town tonight. Swinging by @wopshopsbrewingco grab a #beer flight & a wop-sicle. Beer & bites at this brewery👌🏻They have a great beer garden too🍻It's fun to make it a craft beer night by hitting all the local beers spots, which is pretty sweet since there are so many. You can even bike around with friends on one of the @limocycle beer tours🚲A few #breweries in the works.
Did some exploring in Sanford last week. Lots of great #craftbeer spots in town. Capped the day off with a couple of German beers @willowtreecafesanford His & Hers Erdinger Dark Hefeweizen🍻So much fun at Hollerbach's. Have you been? Love the entertainment! If you haven't you need to experience it. The food is delicious too. Overall great time every visit. Zicke, zacke, zicke, zache, hoi, hoi, hoi. Prost!!
Did some exploring up in Sanford and needed a place to chill for a bit. @palatecoffeebrewery was my cup of tea☺Loved this Sanford Fog tea Lavender, honey, Earl Grey tea & milk. Smells as heavenly as it taste. Great coffee shop here in Sanford. They have a corner set up with local gifts too👌🏻Love the outlets next to the tables. Great spot to chill and enjoy a cup.
Here's my post on nearby nature to enjoy.


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Q: Cannot delete a record with OneToMany relation When I delete a record in a table, related record should be deleted in another table. But I receive instead:

java.sql.BatchUpdateException: Batch entry 0 update child_table set parent_table_id=null where parent_table_id=63 was aborted

The exception above is thrown against the following settings:
@OneToMany(cascade = javax.persistence.CascadeType.ALL, targetEntity = ChildTable.class)
@JoinColumn(name = "parent_table_id")
@org.hibernate.annotations.Fetch(FetchMode.SUBSELECT)
public List<ChildTable> getTables() {
    return tables;
}

If I'm not mistaken, with such annotations, when a record is deleted in ParentTable, corresponding relation should be deleted in Child one. It tries to become "null" (because corresponding record exists no more) before complete deletion. This id column is "not null". When I make it be "null" (just for testing this case) everything works correctly.
Could you help me understand what is the real problem behind this?
Thank you in advance.

A: I usually don't use annotations. I prefer hbm mapping files so I can tell you some possible solutions with hbm mappings. :)  I think you need to add inverse=true in your parent one-to-many relationship. Always put inverse=true in your parent collections. For annotation equivalent of inverse=true please see this.
If this doesn't work, I know it would not be a good solution, you can give a try with not-found="ignore" or @NotFound(action=NotFoundAction.IGNORE) in the one-to-many relationship in parent. Eventually, it has same effect as making not-null=false for the foreign key column in database.

A: One of the responders gave correct answer, but he deleted it.
I had to use hibernate Cascade annotation instead of JPA one. It didn't work for me because the problem was a little bit deeper than just usage of JPA and hibernate annotations together. Mapper class for ChildTable had parent_table_id of int type instead of a ParentTable class type the id field is mapped in. So I changed it from:
@Entity
@Table(name = "child_table")
public class ChildTable {

private int id;
private int parent_table_id;
...

to
@Entity
@Table(name = "child_table")
public class ChildTable {

private int id;
private ParentTable parent_table;
...

Surely some additional changes (connected to this one) were made and deletion started to work as expected.
So, if you have corresponding error during deletion of an entity in one-to-many relation and  everything is correct with annotations usage, check the types, your fields are of, in mapper-classes :)

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Paul Ingraham • Jun 17, 2016 ARCHIVEDMicroblog posts are archived and rarely updated. In contrast, most long-form articles on PainScience.com are updated regularly over the years.
Comic by Patrick Lyons of Coogee Bay Physiotherapy.
What's a "bottom up understanding of back pain," and why's that bad? It's the idea that back pain comes primarily from backs (bottom up), when in fact we have really strong evidence that back pain severity and chronicity is powerfully by the brain (top down).
"Greater disability scores associated with MRI utilization." One of the most common ways of measuring the badness of back pain is "disability" as determined by a very carefully designed questionnaire. And disability gets worse (higher scores) when MRI is involved in the assessment of back pain, probably because it "medicalizes" and dramatizes. This is a nocebo effect (opposite of placebo). Basically, looking for things wrong with people's spines makes people fear their spines, which makes them more hesitant. MRI also almost always finds problems that look bad but aren't actually significant, which of course is even more of a problem. MRI is nearly useless for most back pain.
"Reduced sense of well-being following exposure to MRI." Very similar to the previous item! "Well-being" can be high even when you have a bunch of back pain … or it can be low. When back pain is over-medicalized — too much fancy diagnosis, scary treatment options bandied about — people feel worse about their situation. More worried! Understandably.


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Collaboration Is The Key Idea at U.S.-Canada Jesuit Migration Network Meeting
Individuals from the Jesuit network engaged in ministry, service, education, and research related to the situations of migrants and refugees in the U.S. and Canada gathered in Washington, D.C. last week for a sub-region meeting of the Jesuit Migration Network of Central and North America. Representing more than fifteen Jesuit and partner institutions, the group of staff and faculty met at Georgetown University Law School for a full day of sharing, networking, and brainstorming. The following day, a number of the participants met with U.S. Senate and House offices on Capitol Hill to share perspectives from the network on concerns including root causes of migration, the separation of children from parents as families seek asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border, and the situation of DACA recipients.
Fr. Rafael Garcia, S.J. (Sacred Heart Parish – El Paso, TX), Christopher Kerr (Ignatian Solidarity Network), Amy Ketner (Saint Mary's Student Parish – Ann Arbor, MI), and Mike Allison, Ph.D. (The University of Scranton – Scranton, PA) at U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH)'s office on Capitol Hill.
The meeting, organized by the Jesuit Conference Office of Justice and Ecology and the Ignatian Solidarity Network, had three goals: to create space for reflection on the migration realities of the region and beyond; to better understand the ways the Jesuit network is responding to these realities; and to identify ways that U.S. and Canadian institutions can collaborate to support the response taking place in the U.S. and Canada as well as in Mexico and Central America.
The gathering of U.S. and Canadian representatives was part of the broader efforts of the Jesuit Migration Network of Central America and North America (RJM-CANA), which promotes collaboration among Jesuit works in Central America, Mexico, the United States and Canada, committed to migrants, displaced people, refugees and their families.
Organizations and institutions represented at the DC meeting included: Gesu Parish (Detroit, MI), Holy Trinity Parish (Washington, DC), Ignatian Solidarity Network, Jesuit Conference Office of Justice and Ecology Jesuit Refugee Service Canada, Jesuit Refugee Service USA, Jesuit Schools Network, Jesuit Social Research Institute, Kino Border Initiative Loyola University Chicago, Marquette University, Sacred Heart Parish (El Paso, TX), St. Mary's Student Parish (Ann Arbor, MI), and The University of Scranton.
U.S. and Canadian delegates participate in the yearly RJM-CANA meeting, which will occur again this October in El Salvador.
Jesuit Migration Network meeting attendees
Editor's Note: This story was originally published on the Ignatian Solidarity Network site on May 22, 2018.
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The Table Has Grown: Encounter and Hospitality at Bellarmine Chapel
BY TIM SEVERYN | May 17, 2018 | EN ESPAÑOL
At six and a half years old, Roberto* enrolled in kindergarten, a year behind his peers. Over the last 8 months, when he ought to have been learning to read and playing on the playground, he had instead been on the run with his papa, mama, and four year old sister, Marian—from the gangs in his home nation of El Salvador, from the human traffickers on the Guatemala-Mexico border, from the paid contractors on the Mexico-U.S. border looking to capture him and return him to the violence he had fled from months prior. He, like so many in similar situations, has experienced trauma.
[Sarnil Prasad via Flickr]
His first day in Cincinnati, Ohio, he spelled mama ven, mama come, on the refrigerator in magnets. Stretching his spelling skills across time and space, begging for safety and security for his family. But it would be more than four weeks before ICE would release her and 4-year-old Marian to our care. Mama with an ankle monitor and Marian barely recovered from the chicken pox she caught while incarcerated in the euphemistically named "South Texas Family Residential Center," a prison in all but name, where they had to prove "credible fear" before a hostile ICE officer. After a night spent in the airport, they finally arrive—a tearful reunion—holy.
On Good Friday, the many faces of Christ crucified today covered the cross during veneration at Bellarmine Chapel in Cincinnati.
So here we are in 2018: Our government actively separating families like theirs for the sole purpose of discouraging other immigrants from coming, from fleeing violence in search of a better life.
Here we are: okay with locking up a 4-year-old child and her mother in an isolation ward, a shared solitary confinement; okay with a child sleeping on a tax-payer funded slab of a cot in a dark room without electricity.
Okay with so many families fleeing death threats for the better part of a year, only to be locked up by the designated "safe" country like they had committed a crime rather than been the victims of one.
We, the American people, have decided we are okay with this—so long as we're secure.
But we, the Catholic Church, have decided we're not okay with this.
In 2015, Pope Francis stood before some of the most powerful people in the world, the U.S. Congress, and declared: "Let us treat others with the same passion and compassion with which we want to be treated. Let us seek for others the same possibilities which we seek for ourselves. Let us help others to grow, as we would like to be helped ourselves. In a word, if we want security, let us give security; if we want life, let us give life; if we want opportunities, let us provide opportunities. The yardstick we use for others will be the yardstick which time will use for us."
Bellarmine parishioners and members of the local immigrant community from Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador participate in a Share the Journey potluck meal.
Last fall, Pope Francis invited all Catholic congregations across the world to join him in doing precisely this, launching a two-year campaign with Caritas called Share the Journey. In partnership with the Jesuits, the Ignatian Solidarity Network has launched a complementary effort known as the Campaign for Hospitality, with roots going back to an intercontinental Jesuit social ministry conference in the Dominican Republic last year. Among the attendees at that conference was Fr. Dan Hartnett, S.J., a longtime missionary in Peru and the current pastor of Bellarmine Chapel on the campus of Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio.
He returned from the conference on fire, quickly convening a group of parishioners and staff, including this author, a licensed social worker—around a simple question—What can we do? He wondered how we might begin to change the narrative around immigrants in our nation, or at least our community, to move from a story of criminalization to one of humanization.
At Bellarmine's Share the Journey retreat for parishioners, Xavier University Theology faculty, Dr. Marcus Mescher, provides Biblical grounding for welcoming the stranger.
As one parishioner remarked, "We can't continue to treat trauma survivors like criminals, to treat preschoolers like enemies of the state. If we throw people away, label them disposable, the excluded of the earth, we spit in the face of God. Jesus reached out to the most vulnerable, and said, I love you—let us eat together, let us have table fellowship." Bellarmine's table has grown, and we've gotten an inkling of the table size Jesus imagined, that God crafted to feed us all.
A member of Bellarmine's Immigration Team welcomes attendees to a screening of the documentary Human Flow.
From that initial gathering, we have rapidly expanded encounters between our primarily white, university-bound, middle and upper-middle class parish with our immigrant neighbors. We have formed a parish Immigration Team that meets on a monthly basis and has sponsored a number of events in the realms of 1) Hospitality/Relationship Building; 2) Education; and 3) Advocacy. We've held a story-sharing event with 250 in attendance, listening to immigrant women and Dreamers share their trauma and triumphs. We've accompanied five women and their families as they have launched a catering business—with their first event our Feast of St. Ignatius Picnic for over 200 parishioners with fresh tamales, empanadas, and papusas—and much fellowship. We held a Share the Journey retreat with 100 parish leaders present. We've helped launch a new nonprofit in the city, Casa de Paz/House of Peace for Latina survivors of domestic violence. And we've recently helped the Ignatian Solidarity Network establish an Ohio-wide coalition of Jesuit works lobbying Senator Portman on the Dream Act.
But perhaps our deepest encounter, the one where we've truly shared the journey, expressing hospitality in the most radical sense of the word, of actually identifying with the suffering and becoming vulnerable ourselves in the process, has been with Roberto, Marian, Ella, and Luis, the family of four from El Salvador. We met them through the Kino Border Initiative, a Jesuit project in Nogales, AZ. KBI had contacted Bellarmine some months earlier with a simple request: We've got a family coming from El Salvador, could your parish take them in?
Father Dan wanted to do this, but he knew he couldn't do it alone—his time in Peru meant he had a command of the language, but that wouldn't be enough to carry a family from suffering to safety. Could our community move beyond the protected pavers and well-manicured lawns of Xavier University, beyond our own class privilege and white skin, towards true encounter? An informal survey of the parish, 750 households in total, revealed a smattering of Spanish-speakers, no more than 10 families. Was that enough? Could we make this work? Father Dan stood before the parish one Sunday, and directly said: "Bellarmine, we've been asked, can we respond? We've been called, how will we answer?" He put the question before each of us—and the response was tremendous, sacred, blessed.
Having gone through the Spiritual Exercises as a community, we were primed for discernment and ready for real encounter. We wanted to be a field hospital like Pope Francis urges, a church abounding in mercy and love. Within weeks, we received an outpouring of generosity. Solidly ¼ of the parish actively relayed a desire to be involved, to support financially, assist with medical or legal counsel, educate, provide meals, and more. When a bilingual family stepped up to host in their own home, we knew we were moving with God. In Fr. Dan's five years with the parish, it was the greatest single activation he'd seen. And so we said yes: yes to God's call, and yes to accompanying our migrant neighbors through trauma to health.
It has been a lot of work to support this family's transition, and we're still early in the process (pray for us!), but we are as far as we are because we made a conscious effort to work together in a move from the culture of indifference towards the culture of encounter, towards radical hospitality. When we strive to make ourselves vulnerable, God abides. When we strive to become painfully aware, and our fortresses begin to break down, we become something better than we were before conversion. When we hear our neighbors' heartbeats' distress in our own chests, and realize the blood they spill is our own blood, the abuse they endure is, in some part, our own—we can no longer turn a blind eye to their suffering. When this happens, we know in our depths that the Body of Christ is real, and everything is connected in God, shining like the sun. When this happens, we know the tears of a child are the tears of our own children, crying out mama ven, mama come—the call of God. And we do our best to respond, to surround them with the same love we do our own. I am glad our church is one of thousands across the nation trying to live out this call to love, striving to Share the Journey.
*Names have been changed for privacy.
Tim Severyn
Tim Severyn is a licensed social worker serving as the Director of Social Mission for Bellarmine Chapel, the Jesuit parish on the campus of Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. He teaches as Adjunct Faculty for the Social Work and Theology Departments. He has masters degrees in Social Work from Washington University in St. Louis and in Religion, Ethics, and Politics from Harvard Divinity School.
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BY CAITLIN WRIGHT | May 17, 2018
My brother Zachary was never the most athletic player on the field. In fact, for a decent portion of his childhood, he appeared as the exact opposite. Zach was the first kid to get glasses in elementary school, contracted asthma at a young age, and had allergies so extensive that, at age nine, he endured a series of painful shots once a week to combat his sensitivities to the environment. He looked like a blonde Harry Potter with a red ring around his mouth due to habitually licking his lips. Nevertheless, Zach got contacts, overcame asthma and his allergies, started using chapstick, and became a pretty talented soccer player. But, Zach's best friend Jhony? Jhony was always picked first for the team.
Jhony entered our lives in 2007 when he and Zach started playing soccer together. They were both in the sixth grade. As a pre-teen, Jhony was lightning fast and had foot skills that made all coaches in the league salivate. In any game, you could hear parents guffaw at his finesse. And as he grew up, he only got better. He was one of two freshmen to make the varsity soccer team at our high school. He was also a varsity track star. The cross country team wanted him to quit soccer in favor of their sport. He didn't. His heart was with the beautiful game.
Jhony with the author's father and brothers at a World Cup qualifier game.
Even with all of the fawning and praise, Jhony remained humble, hardworking, and unbelievably kind. He, Zach, and the rest of their club soccer team played together for years and grew to become best friends. They were known around the town, too, as a group of boys you could rely on. Together, they worked on school projects, coached younger players at camps over the summer, and went to church functions at our local parish. They ate dozens of Chipotle burritos, explored abandoned buildings they thought were haunted, and drove around our small Minnesota town in used cars. When people say "boys will be boys," I can only hope they mean the kind of boys that comprised the group my brother and Jhony were a part of.
Jhony and Zach with friends.
And even after they left high school, the friends remained close. So did their families. In 2015, Jhony asked my dad to be his RCIA sponsor. Upon Jhony's confirmation at the Easter Vigil, my parents became Jhony's godparents, solidifying his status as not just a friend of Zach's, but a member of our family.
Jhony and the author's parents (his Godparents) at the Easter Vigil Mass celebrating Jhony's initiation into the Catholic Church.
Since the day I met his family, I knew the lives of Jhony, his mom, his dad, and his younger brother were inherently different from my own, even if I wanted to convince myself that we were the same. Back then, in 2007, I didn't know what it meant to celebrate what made humans different from one another. I thought it was better to pretend everyone was a fake kind of equal, that it was better to assimilate. For fear of appearing offensive or ignorant, I felt embarrassed and refused when my mom asked me to speak Spanish with Jhony's mom in the bleachers at the soccer games. The first couple of times Jhony and his brother, who was the same age as my youngest brother, came to my house, I avoided asking about their cultural identities because I thought it was rude. But in this manner, I never knew anything.
Fortunately, as I grew older, I became privy to the beauty in cultural awareness and understanding. And gradually, the family I had known for nearly half of my life became even more familiar to me, as if a flower I did not properly water finally began to bloom. They never closed themselves off from me—I secluded myself from them. This is why I never knew the details of their residence in the United States, the details of how and why they moved from a country stricken by war, poverty, violence, and natural disaster. The reasons they left El Salvador.
The author's father with Jhony and his mom, Juana, at his confirmation.
Jhony and his parents are recipients of Temporary Protected Status, or TPS—a form of relief provided to residents of certain countries designated by the United States. Typically, these are countries that have faced significant natural disasters, have ongoing armed conflicts, or meet other extraordinary circumstances. When Jhony was a young boy, his parents left a damaged and ransacked El Salvador in search of safety and security. Under TPS, they were able to enter and live legally in the United States. They have resided in Minnesota for nearly twenty years. Jhony has never known a home outside of the United States. He has never traveled to El Salvador since fleeing in his early childhood. Essentially, he is an American. He is just as American as me, my brothers, or any person I know. And now, he must leave. Not because he wants to but because he has to.
On Monday, January 8, 2018, President Donald J. Trump and his administration announced the decision to rescind TPS for the people of El Salvador. Jhony, his parents, and over 200,000 people receiving TPS from El Salvador will be forced to leave the United States by September 9, 2019. There are no direct pathways to citizenship or permanent residency for TPS recipients, regardless of their legal entry and residence. There are no options.
Jhony, his family, and over 200,000 other Salvadorans present in the United States under TPS will face deportation away from a place where they were once welcomed, from a place they were given relief, from a place that has become their home. And they will be deported to El Salvador, a nation very much unprepared for the influx of people, and a country where young men like Jhony could, quite likely, die. I don't wish to enforce the commentary of our president that El Salvador and other countries designated for TPS are "sh*thole countries." Clearly, El Salvador has and continues to offer enormous amounts of beauty; in its people, its culture, its landscapes. But the poverty, oppression, and violence remain, and must not be overlooked. The injustices are rampant.
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Temporary Protected Status for people of El Salvador only guaranteed what the very title intended: temporary protected status. Since 2001, Salvadorans have lived in the country under the guise that they would be safe. For 17 years, Salvadorans learned, worked, raised children, laid roots, and, eventually, fell in love with the people, culture, and landscapes of a new place: the United States of America. The U.S. took in the migrants and gave them not only a shelter, but a home. But now, we're returning the tired, poor, and weary. They are no longer welcome. There's no longer room at the inn.
The author's family and Jhony.
My family and I have always been people who feel we can find a solution to any problem. We can come up with an answer, we can work something out. I especially feel a responsibility now, as a Jesuit Volunteer, because I work in migration legal services. I have the knowledge, I have the resources. But this…I can do nothing but shrug my shoulders and shake my head. "I'm sorry, Mom and Dad. I'm sorry, Zach. I'm sorry, Jhony. I'm not sure there's anything we can do." I've never felt this sort of helplessness. I can only imagine how migrants must feel.
These are the moments in which it is imperative to be men and women for and with others. Otherwise, we will never escape the feeling of helplessness. When there is no room at the inn, we have the capacity to provide the manger. The hearts of people like my parents, people like the attorneys I work with every day, people I see advocating in front of City Hall: you will find them on the way to the manger. When I meet with my clients, they say, "thank you, baby," and squeeze my hand, because even though the system tries to beat them down, they continue to seek and extend compassion. They are searching for the manger. We must continue to pave the way there, to serve as the guiding star, particularly in times we feel helpless. Our efforts are not simply for them but beside them, with them. Until there is no longer a "them." Until there is only an "us."
This story was originally published as part of the Ignatian Solidarity Network's #JVReflects series, which explores the intersection of faith and justice from the perspective of JESUIT VOLUNTEERS serving as long-term volunteers both domestically and internationally with Jesuit Volunteer Corps and Jesuit Volunteer Corps Northwest. Reflections specifically focus on the cornerstone values of the Jesuit volunteer experience: spirituality, simple living, community, and social justice.
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Caitlin Wright is a 2017-2018 volunteer with Jesuit Volunteer Corps. She hails from Prior Lake, MN and graduated from Creighton University with a degree in English and Spanish. Caitlin loves going on road trips with friends, writing on her blog, and watching movies and musicals (when she's not performing in them!). As a Jesuit Volunteer, Caitlin serves as a legal counselor with Catholic Migration Services in Brooklyn, NY.
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Picking what grass you want to use on your lawn may seem like a daunting task, especially if you're new to the area. There are a couple things you should know before deciding what grass to populate your yard with. Arizona is listed under the USDA's plant hardiness zone 9b. This means that the extreme minimum temperature will be around 25 degrees Fahrenheit. With that in mind, here are the best grass types for your lawn in Phoenix.
The first thing to understand about grass is something called sod groups. There are two of these groups, warm season and cold season. Arizona is one of the hottest states in America, so cold season grasses are only used for overseeding purposes. As such, we'll be primarily focusing on warm season grasses.
Bermudagrass is the kind of grass you see on golf courses and putting greens. It's also a top choice for Arizona due to its high heat tolerance. Its ability to stay year round without requiring reseeding is intensely desired. To mow your bermudagrass, you should only leave about a 1" to 1½" in the summer. Since it will go dormant in the winter, let it get to 2" so that the cold doesn't damage it.
Midiron grass is the most highly sought after turf grass in Arizona. It withstands the intense temperatures of the desert and has a lovely bright green hue to it. Similarly to bermudagrass, midiron will also become dormant in the winter. It's a very low maintenance turf and can handle a lot of foot traffic. Due to its ability to handle traffic, it's often seen used in schools and parks. It should be mowed at a height of 2".
Palmetto St. Augustine is another sought-after grass in Arizona for its ability to thrive in shady areas. If your lawn has a lot of shade, then this is definitely the grass for you. This grass will take several touches of frost to go dormant, but it goes dormant late in the year and rises early in the spring. It doesn't do well with overseeding, so it's important to know that you will have to deal with a brown yard in the winter. It can be mowed at a height of 2 ½".
Since all of these grass types go dormant in the winter, overseeding with a cold season grass is important. The only exception to this rule is the Palmetto St. Augustine, as previously mentioned. By overseeding, you ensure that your lawn stays nice and green year long. This will take extra work but is worth the rewards. The grass that is recommended to perform this task is perennial ryegrass. Overseeding with perennial ryegrass should begin in the fall as to allow it ample time to grow. Once it has settled in and grown nicely, you should mow it at a height of 1½" to 2½". This will help it look its best during the winter months.
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"Deserts are spreading. Water scarcity is increasing. Tropical forests are shrinking. Our once prolific fisheries are in danger of collapse," said Ban at the start of a three-day conference in New Delhi on sustainable development.
All countries must strive to reach a "conclusive carbon emissions reduction" deal in Copenhagen in December, he said at the meeting.
The gathering in the Danish capital is set to discuss initiatives aimed at tackling climate change when the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012.
"Copenhagen must clarify commitments of developed countries to reduce their emissions," said Ban, adding: "We must also achieve clarity on what mitigation actions developing countries will be prepared to make.
Much of the focus at the New Delhi conference will be on the United States, which was set to lay out President Barack Obama's new climate change policy, according to organisers.
John Kerry, chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was due to address the meeting via a video link.
The Obama administration has already begun shredding the climate policies formulated under ex-president George W. Bush and is vowing to lead the global fight against climate change.
He added he sensed a new worldwide momentum to address climate change.
"Here in India, in China, in the economies of Europe and North America, in Brazil, and also in many regions in Africa I find a new determination and new initiatives," he said, but cautioned there was no time to waste.
India, China and other emerging economies have long argued industrialised nations are historically responsible for greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere and so must do more to fix the problem.
They have resisted targeted curbs on their own carbon emissions, claiming their ascent from poverty could be jeopardised by a straitjacket on their carbon emissions.
Developing countries were excluded from binding targets for greenhouse gases under the 1997 Kyoto Protocol — the key reason the US refused to ratify the treaty.
However, activists say ensuring China and India take action now has become vital because their carbon output has risen dramatically with the booms in their fossil fuel-dependent economies.
China now outstrips the US as the world's biggest greenhouse gas polluter while India is poised to overtake Russia as the third biggest emitter, according to a report last September by the Global Carbon Project.


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Illegal or impossible, not sure they are the same.
"Illegal or impossible, not sure they are the same."
Either way, few people care now what Stallman thinks. Life is a lot more naunced that his rather black and white way of seeing the world. Linux will go in the direction that Linus and the users want it to go in, which almost certainly won't be the way this purist wants.
...and yet people care about whether or not people care about what Stallman thinks.
Whichever way Linux goes, it's going to be under the GPL2 for a very long time, they'll be no nuances there whatever your black and white thinking would lead us to believe.
"Whichever way Linux goes, it's going to be under the GPL2 for a very long time, "
You think? It would be fairly simple to divide the kernel up into GPL and non-GPL sections. In fact IMO that would be a good thing though YMMV.
Problem is not to divide the kernel, it's how to combine the GPL and non-GPL pieces.
So how is this any different from, say, the non-free graphics drivers nVidia and AMD provide to power their graphics cards in Linux? Is it the fact it's designed as a baseline filesystem and therefore has to be low-level and integrated into the kernel (even as a module--kernel modules have to match the kernel so are part of the tree) to do that that's the issue?
It's a piece of cake: no Linux distro is allowed to distribute Nvidia binary drivers. End-user is the one who actually search for, downloads and installs the driver and this is compliance bothe with GPL and Nvidia proprietary licenses. It it inconvenient but GPL crowd also respects other licenses too.
Remember, we're talking about the permission to distribute not the permission to use.
That doesn't sound quite right. No licence can prevent one exercising one's right to free speech. Otherwise i couldn't mix GPL code with, on the same CD, the works of Shakespeare, a list of English words or indeed the file allocation tables off the media itself.. That would clearly be nuts.
Clearly you can distribute GPL licensed software alongside non-GPL files, no matter what the GPL says.
"That doesn't sound quite right. No licence can prevent one exercising one's right to free speech. Otherwise i couldn't mix GPL code with, on the same CD, the works of Shakespeare, a list of English words or indeed the file allocation tables off the media itself.. That would clearly be nuts."
Um, the license is related to copyright, and copyright IS a legally-erected restriction on the First Amendment: namely, speech and press can have ownership, and that ownership can impose restrictions which are supported by the law.
The works of Shakespeare are generally OUT of copyright because Shakespeare died hundreds of years ago. English words fall under the "too generic" escape clause (but a compiled dictionary can be subject to copyright), and the file allocation tables are the product of machine, not man.
"Clearly you can distribute GPL licensed software alongside non-GPL files, no matter what the GPL says."
No, because you can violate the license and copyright associated with the GPL. Without copyright, authors can't prevent their works being copied and so on.
"no Linux distro is allowed to distribute Nvidia binary drivers"
The GPL license only affects code licensed under the GPL. The GPL CANNOT restrict you from distributing software with other licenses.
First, the graphics drivers were specifically written to interface with Windows.
Second, the interface between the GPL kernel and the proprietary graphics drivers is also GPL.
Third, it is the user that obtains the driver directly from the proprietary vendor, thus gains permission from that vendor.
There is no "this section of". It is all GPLv2.
Sorry but you are plain wrong. That black and white enough for you.
This isn't a matter of what Stallman thinks but what the license says. Whilst you may disagree with Stallman (and many people do, though many people think he's done rather a lot of good for software), his reading of the license is probably correct. Subtle nuances are really nice in music and art, in license terms they are a sodding nightmare.
I suspect Ubuntu found legal advice that says it *may* not be illegal due to this tenuous legal thread that we've worked up and devised. I'd be astonished if a lawyer went out on a limb and said it was legal. Lawyers never commit to anything like that even if they are 100% certain they are right.
I'm thinking back and can't remember a case of somebody winning against the GPL2 license. I could be wrong though.
When Stallman speaks, my advice would be to listen carefully, You may not like what you hear, but as one of the main architects of free/open software AND the GPL license he tends to carry a lot of weight (no pun intended).
"Sorry but you are plain wrong. That black and white enough for you."
Are you a judge who's had this case to decide? Because if you're not neither your view nor Stallman's nor Ubuntu's nor Linus's nor my opinion counts.
The contention on Ubuntu's side seems to be that loading a module does not create a derived work of the kernel, it's just two works sitting alongside each other in memory. Until we get a court ruling on that we don't know whether it's right or wrong. Stallman may have been responsible for the GPL but even he can't determine how the court will rule on the facts of a specific case.
You're missing the most important part here. The problem is not loading a module, it's the legal permission to distribute that module with Ubuntu or any other distro.
Look for a crash-course in IP licensing.
"The problem is not loading a module, it's the legal permission to distribute that module with Ubuntu or any other distro."
The solution being NOT to distribute it. As with the other non-GPL stuff the distro package is a loader that pulls the real package down from a separate resource.
"Are you a judge who's had this case to decide? Because if you're not neither your view nor Stallman's nor Ubuntu's nor Linus's nor my opinion counts."
You are correct, of course, and that should make us all fearful.
If my I learned anything from my old Intellectual Property professor in law school it was that the courts simply don't understand IP law. Prof. Blaustein proved that by forcing us to read every off-the-wall, counter-intuitive and contradictory decisions made by the US Supreme Court up to passage of the 1976 Copyright law (I took the class in 1980). And most of those involved technology that most today would consider backward, like gramophone records. Operating systems? The Internet? What? I (proudly) don't even know how to send an e-mail!
One thing we do know about law as evidenced by the judges of the supreme court, there is no right interpretation. It all relative to time, culture and geography. Law is totally fungible over time.
"loading a module does not create a derived work of the kernel"
Kernel modules do not exist in a bubble, they're directly linked (in the compiler sense) to Linux, which is licensed under the GPL. Those modules are therefore inescapably "derivative works" of that GPL licensed code, as they literally contain parts of it, simply cannot function without it, and therefore must be published under the same license, or else be in violation of copyright law (assuming they are actually published, as opposed to used privately).
The question is not whether or not this is a copyright violation, as it quite clearly is, the question is whether or not the copyright holders (and in Linux there are many) have any interest in challenging this particular violation, and in this case I suspect they won't.
As the author of the GPL, I'm fairly confident that Stallman probably understands it well enough to know when it's being violated. The fact that certain Linux (and other Free Software) developers seem not to care, is not somehow a poor reflection of Stallman, but rather a stark example of the sort of hypocritical "pragmatists" who are quite happy to benefit from the environment of academic freedom created by this license, but then whine about "fundamentalism" (as one of the more diplomatic examples of their rhetoric) whenever they feel the urge to prostitute themselves to some proprietary software vendor, whilst sacrificing our freedom at the alter of their "convenience".
"When Stallman speaks, my advice would be to listen carefully,"
I've listened to him enough over the years and frankly I can't be bothered anymore. Some would call him an OSS "evangelist", I'd call him an inflexible arrogant zealot. If you want to listen to his quasi religious diatribes that are usually one step removed from reality then knock yourself out. For me - I'll just get on with using software that suits my needs, regardless of its provenance or license conditions.
Make a difference between using the software and distributing it. Using the GPL software, there's no restriction. Distributing GPL software requires compliance.
what you have said has nothing to do with the issue in question. but thanks for sharing your rather philistine approach.
"I've listened to him enough over the years and frankly I can't be bothered anymore"
I've listened to people like you enough and cant take it anymore. How the hell did you come to the conclusion that RMS has ANYTHING to do with Open Source Software? He has never been involved in OSS has wont touch it with a barge pole. It's like complaining that Santa failed to deliver the easter eggs on easter sunday. Or complaining to the grower of apple trees that the tree he sold you did not produce any bananas.
This is a political issue. If you dont like politics fine, continue to avoid voting.
GPLv2 is a pretty liberal license. Linux specifically did NOT go to v3 because it is more restrictive.
The fact that Stallman and Oracle lawyers are on the same side of the fence should give you (and Ubuntu) a clue here.
nothing to do with purity. the license dictates what can be done not the users nor Linus. Linus works on the code. He settled the direction legally when he put the kernel under the gpl.
Violating a contract can open up civil liability, but it's not 'illegal'.
I'm not even sure that the GPL achieves the status of 'contract'.
There are quite a few likely legal off-ramps before anyone would be handing over a settlement cheque.
That point is interesting. Even if rms got his way in court, what damages could he claim? It's not like he could claim lost income, the entire point of GPL is that it's free. Whatever gets bundled with GPL code, it can't cause him material loss, so it basically boils down to hurt feelings. How do US courts deal with that? It's not like the US has european style "moral rights".
We had these exact arguments years ago. In the US, a creator has copyright and may restrict use and derivative uses of her creation. The law governing infringement is civil law, but there are instances when, if one infringes upon the wrong thing, the FBI comes and arrest you.
No one has permission to use GPL software, or any software under copyright, except they receive a license. There is an allowance for fair use, and while ZFS on Ubuntu may be rationalized under that basis, I expect that a Court would have to decide. I expect that Canonical's positive advice hinges on ZFS being licensable by the end user and that Canonical does know how to distribute non-GPL software to users.
My personal opinion? I can license GNU software to run on my FreeBSD and OS X systems. If a Linux distributor wants to include a non-GPL file system to improve integrity and function for the user, it should be possible without one author coercing another author to change his license. As the catalyst for the GPL was a vendor's withdrawal of code that Stallman was using at MIT, it would be ironic to use the GPL to have Canonical withdraw its packaging of ZFS. I think Stallman should let this be, because if the slippery slope is to more user choices and inclusion of better technology, let's slide. GPL software's importance will not be diminished.
No, the slippery slope is to legal action from Oracle and others. Look here, mate, Microsoft has also better technology and could offer more user choice but we can't do anything but respect their license.
The IP law does not work like that. Lost income is only a guideline to estimate punitive damages, it is not used to decide if an infringement has been committed.
That point is interesting. Even if rms got his way in court, what damages could he claim?
Damages as in monetary damage? Probably none, at most very, very little.
Given that the properties involved here would be the Linux kernel, property of the Linux Foundation, and ZFS, property of Oracle, I'd guess he doesn't even have standing to bring a suit in the matter at all. I suppose you could make some tenuous thread between the GNU utilities being distributed along-side ZFS, but the actual, tangible link is only between the kernel and the file system, neither of which are FSF properties. I think any suit Stallman tried to bring here would get thrown out entirely.
But let's pretend for a moment that he did have standing to bring a suit or that it was Linus (who, as the public face of the Linux Foundation, probably would have standing) calling foul on Ubuntu. At that point the case would become a lot clearer and the possible end result would be an injunction, not damages.
it's not about the money fool I'm guessing you have grown up with Linux and have no idea what it was like before the gpl.
I don't know if rms has contributed any code to Linux, as far as I'm aware he hasn't. But a Linux contributor could sue for copyright infringement, and possibly Oracle could as well depending on the terms of their licence.
RMS wrote make, GCC, and EMACS. So yes RMS has contributed a bit to GNU/Linux besides just the license.
"Damages" are only one possible part of a legal remedy.
As you indicate, the "damages" in this case would probably be limited to legal fees, since there is no income to be deprived of.
However, the remedy would probably also include an injunction against the prohibited behavior, i.e. either they bundle with all source code, or they do not bundle at all. That is the remedy RMS would be most interested in. You can not bundle non-free software with free software with impunity; that part of the license has been litigated before.
Aspects of 'hurt feelings' or 'moral rights' do not have obvious relevance in this scenario.
"the entire point of GPL is that it's free"
No its not. It has nothing to do with being free. The GPL has everything to do with being free!
Confused? Shame about our language. I'm assuming you are using free = zero cost. Well the GPL is not zero cost. Plenty of GPL software is happily sold for a nice profit my many many companies every day. I once bought RedHat, off a store shelf.
People buy my GPL'ed software all the time. But they are free because of it. ZFS bundled into Ubuntu removes that, or at least threatens that. The GPL is designed to protect that freedom.
You need to be careful of your definitions here. The GPL may usually be free, but does not need to be free as it places no restriction on charging a price but the GPL is entirely free, all of the time and guarantees preserving that freedom to anyone who has the GPL'ed code.
Whilst I'm no fan of RMS from reading through the multitude of comments it's clear that he is correct and it would be against the rules, though most agree the end result would be valuable.
Rules can be changed, but religious idolatry can't.
Just invest further in refining BTRFS. It still hasn't reached the maturity of ZFS, but it's stable enough for production use now, and storage management is a whole lot easier than ZFS - you can pull a drive from a volume with ease, unlike ZFS. It just needs a few more features, mostly relating to performance.
AFIK Oracle was the major contributor to BTRFS for Linux, but that stopped when it bought Sun and inherited ZFS in the process.
Interesting point though, is the effort of brining BTRFS to match ZFS bigger or smaller than finding a way round the license terms?
If you are running over a cluster then IBM's GPFS can knock ZFS into a cocked hat. You have to endure IBM's sale process though and pay them silly money.
Personally I assumed that's the main reason that IBM charge so much for the damn thing - covering their support costs.
No, dont split effort doing the same thing for multiple implementations.
ZFS is all the (enterprise/large) file system you need - bar a simple one for small RAM devices.
Yeah, screw competition and innovation; let's just cede all technological progress to multi-billion-dollar international mega-corporations, with histories of ridiculous litigation and screwing over communities, in pursuit of ever-larger yachts.


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Pets at Home Group Plc has announced the name of its new Chief Executive Officer. Ian Kellett will succeed Nick Wood as CEO. The new appointment take place on April 4 2016.
Nick Wood will remain with the Group in an advisory role until July 1 to support Ian and ensure a smooth transition.
Ian has been a member of the Group's Board for the last ten years fulfilling the roles of Chief Financial Officer and latterly the role of Chief Executive Officer of the Retail Division. Ian played a major role in the IPO and the expansion of Pets at Home's veterinary services with the acquisition of Vets4Pets.
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Chairman Tony DeNunzio commented: "I am delighted that Ian is succeeding Nick as CEO, having seen them work together so successfully over the past four years on the strategic development of the Group. His appointment is consistent with the succession plan the Board set out when Ian was appointed last year as CEO of the Retail Division, and with the appointment of Graeme Jenkins as CFO.
"Ian has a strong vision for the Group based on his experience over ten years with Pets at Home in both financial and operational roles and I am confident he will continue to provide excellent leadership to the Group.
"I would like to thank Nick for steering the business so capably over the past four years, particularly in overseeing the Group's IPO in 2014. On behalf of the Board, I wish him well as he takes a break from business life to spend time with his family."
Pets at Home has also announced that Peter Pritchard is promoted from his role of Chief Operating Officer in the Retail Division to Chief Executive Officer of the Retail Division. Sally Hopson remains Chief Executive Officer of the Services Division and Louise Stonier as Group Legal Director and Company Secretary. Graeme Jenkins will join the Group as Chief Financial Officer on April 4.


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Telcos mull tariff review to cushion harsh business climate
Association of Licensed Telecommunication Operators of Nigeria (ALTON), the industry body for all telecommunications companies in Nigeria, said that it is proposing a cost-based tariff for voice calls in the country.
Smile offers solution to roaming cost
A telecommunications firm, Smile Communications Nigeria, has unveiled its SmileKonnect device to reduce roaming cost. The firm partnered a reputable Hong Kong-and United-States based company, NUU Mobile (HKG) Limited, to offer international data roaming services to its customers. This affords customers travelling to top destinations in over 85 countries to automatically access data services to…
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Telecommunications companies plying their trade in Nigeria, have cried out once again over what they described as, increasing tax burdens on their shrinking business.
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The EFTA Surveillance Authority today opened a formal investigation into potential unlawful state aid in transactions amounting to c. €460 million. The transactions involved the purchase in October 2008 of bonds owned by investment funds operated by fund management companies linked to the three collapsed Icelandic banks.
Acting following the receipt of a complaint from Icelandic competitors of the management companies, the Authority will assess whether the assets were purchased on commercial terms by the three newly formed banks Islandsbanki (New Glitnir), Arion (New Kaupthing) and (New) Landsbankinn.
In addition, the Icelandic authorities have in the Authoritys opinion not demonstrated that the banks acted independently of the state. The decisions to acquire the assets were made by temporary boards of the newly created and state-owned banks within days after of their appointments by the Icelandic Government. Each bank has since faced substantial losses on the transactions following write downs of the value of the assets purchased.
The Authority will now conduct a detailed investigation and calls for further comments from the Icelandic authorities and from third parties with an interest in the case.
A non-confidential version of the Authority's Decision to open the formal investigation will shortly be published on the Authority's website and in the Official Journal of the European Union.
 Funds regulated under the Icelandic "UCITS" (Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities) Act.


Believe it or not, there are benefits to almost drowning. For artist Charles Williams, near-death experiences — three of them in total — have brought him closer to God and taken his career to another level.
Since having encountered the "white light," he's been continuously facing his fears. Part of that involves staring at blank canvases and then covering them with ocean scenes and self-portraits that capture his confrontations with water.
Williams' works are coming to the Q.C., where you can see them in two parts of one series called Continuum.
The first part is his "Night" collection, which showcases at Central Piedmont Community College's Ross Gallery as part of Sensoria, the college's annual artsy multidisciplinary festival going down from April 8-17.
Other highlights from Sensoria include authors Amy Bloom, Ben Marcus and Amelia Morris, who will discuss their literary works, in addition to theater performances (like Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead) and music from the likes of composer and "hip harpist" Deborah Henson Conant. But in terms of visually compelling components, Williams is the fish out of water.
Over at New Gallery of Modern Art his "Day" series will also be on view through May 15. Both parts of the series of works display his desire to face his fears by painting the ocean, where every wave and ripple seems to represent the unknown.
The exhibit at CPCC, which runs April 11-14 with a lecture and reception on April 14, also gives visitors the chance to face their own fears.
Folks are encouraged to write their fears out with chalk on a black board that will be mounted on the wall. Meanwhile, Williams' own works, created in part by his own psychological explorations, line the surrounding walls.
The first time Williams nearly drowned was when strong ocean currents pulled him underwater on a family vacation at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
On another occasion, he nearly drowned after venturing out too deep in a swimming pool in Tampa, Florida. As he was struggling to find his way to the surface, he felt as though something pulled him up out of the water. But when he reached the top, he was alone and petrified.
His last, and most recent, encounter came as the product of a rafting trip in Asheville, North Carolina.
When his tube flipped over, he was left clinging to a rock, which triggered a panic attack. He was rescued by a stranger who helped him to get to shore safely before disappearing.
Whether you call it divine intervention or luck, the fact Williams has escaped drowning three times seems to be remarkable.
In addition to strengthening his faith, the experiences helped him hone in on his craft and find new ways to deepen the conceptualization of his art form.
Though Williams painted some landscapes before his watery encounters, he devoted himself to oceanscapes afterwards.
At both exhibits, there will also be a screening of a short film that Williams made. In it, he talks about being baptized when he was 16 years old and how it didn't seem significant to him at the time.
"In terms of being renewed and a spiritual rebirth, I didn't feel it at that point but having those experiences taught me and also showed me that there is something out there," Williams says.
But the experience did more than deepen his faith. Williams also believes that it helped to give him a purpose in life. By finally owning up to his weaknesses, including the inability to swim, he's heightened his self-confidence. He admits to using art as a form of therapy.
Currently, Williams is working on his Masters degree at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
He compares going to school to being in the ocean, since there are various facets of the unknown tied into the future. He takes frequent trips to beaches where he takes day and night photos that he later paints.
In the past, Williams has also explored stereotypes, including one that revolves around black men in the South not being able to swim. He incorporated Nike sneakers into a past collection of beach paintings, though you won't find the pumps in his current body of work.
"I've had to be vulnerable enough to accept that I can not swim. Yes, I'm 32 years old and I'm a black male from the south. For me, that show in 2015 was a coming out show, an acknowledgment of fear and then Continuum is what's next," he says.
"I want this to be, for me, a life long lesson and then I also want it to be an example to others that this [creative process] can flow and be a progressive step towards becoming better through fears or anxieties."
In pieces like "Big Gulp," you'll see a muscular, adult Williams wearing inflatable armbands aka swimming floaties. For him, wearing these are another way of showing his vulnerability.
"I feel stupid in a life jacket because I'm not a kid," he says. "I'm an adult, so I feel like I stick out. But, I know it's important to wear them."
By studying the water and learning to paint it, Williams believes he's progressed in life and as an artist. "When I feel like I don't want to paint water anymore, then that's when I'll take swimming lessons."


It has been important to have a review of the Mental Health Act 1983.
Community treatment orders should continue for the time being, but with tightened criteria.
Complaints systems should be improved and there should be increased access to tribunals.
However, many user-led groups and individuals have expressed disappointment about the scope of the Review report.
The recommendations fall far short of giving people with mental health diagnoses full human rights as set out in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), still leave them without the same rights that other people have.
For example, people will continue not to have the right to refuse detention, even if they are clinically assessed as having capacity, and, whilst they will have increased treatment choices, these can still be overruled.
Thus 'autonomy' for mental health patients will not mean autonomy in the usually accepted sense of the word. There is a continuing reliance on capacity assessments, problematic though these have proved to be.
In addition, there has been a failure to draw actively on the type of supported decision-making recommended under the UNCRPD to enable decisions by people who are clinically assessed as lacking capacity.
The current Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill appears to enshrine decreased, not increased rights.
Whilst the report makes considerable mention of service user and carer involvement in the Review - and there clearly has been consultation and involvement - we are also aware that significant numbers of service users and carers have not been involve and/or have been given limited information or scope to express their views.
and young people and people in the criminal justice system.
In addition, there is a very concerning lack of focus on people who face other forms of additional discrimination, related, for example, to gender/gender identity, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, other disability issues, older age, Deaf people, or people living with dementia.
The report also fails to include recommendations about the need for a significant increase in user-led services, non-clinical options and culturally appropriate alternatives.
Further reading on our concerns about and involvement in the review process are below.


Please mind - the list below is not complete - some records were submitted to GWR earlier in 2014 and will be added to this list.
If you believe you are eligible for a record but don't see you name below, please contact us ASAP.
Under the list of records you can see a list of personal records of Angela Madsen (USA).
and many more glorious ocean rowers, holders of numerous GWR records We are working on it.
The fastest time of crossing the Indian Ocean solo in an open class rowing boat is 56 days 07 hrs 29 min 11 sec set by Emmanuel Coindre (France) who rowed from Carnarvon, Western Australia to Saint Denis, Reunion Island between 30th November 2013 and 25th January 2014 on board The Lady.
Some records were submitted for the first time, some of them are old but worth to be repeated.
When there are team records, all crew can apply for GWR certificates.
4.Mid-Pacific east to west from Long Beach, California to Honolulu, Hawaii in 60 days 5 hrs 5 min, between 21st May and 20th July 2014 on board Spirit of Orlando in team of two.


As per available reports about 15 relevant journals, 50 Conferences, 25 workshops are presently dedicated exclusively to Chemistry and about 1700 articles are being published on Chemistry.
Chemistry being the central science deals with the composition, structure, properties and change of matter. Chemistry has several specialty braches such as medicinal chemistry, environmental chemistry, polymer chemistry, materials chemistry, soil chemistry, atmospheric chemistry, natural chemistry, synthetic chemistry, chiral chemistry, catalysis chemistry and many more. It is enlisted in Advances in polymer synthesis, Polymers in biochemistry, Polymer technology.
Chemistry conference aims to explore the crown researches in the enormous field of chemistry and allied sciences. Chemistry being the basis of life is an integral part in every different science from Life science to Rocket Science. The vast scope of chemistry keeps building every single minute all around the world with a new polymorph or molecule or a synthetic process. These researches when discussed can enlighten many young minds in performing more quality oriented research.
Workshop New Trends 2015, 4th New Trends in Computational Chemistry for industrial Applications, October 1-2 2015, Barcelona, Spain.
18th SCI/RSC Medicinal Chemistry Symposium, September 13-16 2015, Cambridge, UK.
14th International Conference on the Chemistry of Antibiotics and other Bioactive Compounds, October 13- 16, 2015, Galveston, USA.
Advances in HPLC and Chromatography Techniques Conference, March 17-18, 2016, London, UK.
4th Medicinal Chemistry and Computer Aided Drug Designing Conference, November 2-4, 2015, Atlanta, USA.
Asia Pacific Drug Formulation and Bioavailability Conference, June 06-08, 2016, Beijing, China.
2nd Separation Techniques Conference, November 3-5, 2016, Valencia, Spain.
3rd Clinical Pharmacy Conference, December 7-9, 2015, Atlanta, USA.
6th Pharmaceutical Regulatory Affairs and IPR Conference, September 12-14, 2016 San Atonio, USA.
FMC 2015 Frontiers in Medicinal Chemistry, September 14-16, 2015, Antwerp, Belgium.
EFMC-YMCS 2015 - 2nd EFMC Young Medicinal Chemist Symposium, September 17, 2015, Antwerp, Belgium.
ECBS&ICBS 2015, October 7-9, 2015, Berlin, Germany.
1st RSC / SCI symposium on Fibrosis Disease: Chemistry progress from biological target to the clinic, November 10, 2015, Slough, UK.
Structure Based Drug Design Conference 2016, February 21-24, 2016, Carlsbad, USA.
BMCS Mastering MedChem II: 2nd RSC-BMCS symposium on mastering Chemistry, March 9, 2016, Huddersfield, UK.
5th RSC / SCI symposium on Ion Channels as Therapeutic Targets, March 14-15, 2016, Cambridge, UK.
6th RSC / SCI symposium on GPCRs in Chemistry, June 13-15, 2016, Verona, Italy.
Organometallic Chemistry Conference 2016, November 29- December 2, 2016, St Pete Beach, USA.
Ubiquitin Research & Drug Discovery Conference, February 24-25, 2016, San Diego, USA.


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Reckless, stupid action on WHO
President Trump surprised the U.S. and the rest of the world by suspending financial support of the World Health Organization (WHO). Trump blamed WHO for not informing us promptly of the imminent pandemic, so it was their fault, not his, that additional U.S. deaths occurred due to our delayed response? Just the idea of defunding WHO in the middle of a horrendous world pandemic is reckless and stupid.
The well-documented timelines for WHO and Trump responses to the outbreak show Trump's account is false. U.S. intelligence services knew about the serious outbreak in China, urging Trump action during several January meetings. WHO put the world on alert Jan. 9 but lacked sufficient information to call for action due to China's restricting access and called for emergency world action in late January. Still, Trump's response on Feb. 10 was "no problem" — it would miraculously disappear by April. On Feb. 20 it was a "Democrat hoax," and on March 2 "we would have a vaccine soon."
What's been WHO's response to the pandemic? I recently received information about WHO's ongoing world support from an analyst working for WHO. Their outreach is considerable. A partial list: coordinating and distributing millions of Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) of all types to over 100 countries; coordinating research strategies for modeling, vaccines and clinical guidance; and providing expert analysis of epidemiology data.
Some may say (sadly) we should focus on U.S. impacts and let the rest of the world solve their own problems. That just doesn't work. The worse it gets anywhere, its spread makes it worse for all. Trump even refused to join the world's leaders in WHO's global vaccine research initiative.
We need to encourage our legislators to override Trump's reckless actions. Quickly!
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Expression of aluminum-induced genes in transgenic Arabidopsis plants can ameliorate aluminum stress and/or oxidative stress
B. Ezaki, R. C. Gardner, Y. Ezaki, H. Matsumoto
Institute of Plant Science and Resources
To examine the biological role of Al-stress-induced genes, nine genes derived from Arabidopsis, tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.), wheat (Triticum aestivum L.), and yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) were expressed in Arabidopsis ecotype Landsberg. Lines containing eight of these genes were phenotypically normal and were tested in root elongation assays for their sensitivity to Al, Cd, Cu, Na, Zn, and to oxidative stresses. An Arabidopsis blue-copper-binding protein gene (AtBCB), a tobacco glutathione S-transferase gene (parB), a tobacco peroxidase gene (NtPox), and a tobacco GDP-dissociation inhibitor gene (NtGDI1) conferred a degree of resistance to Al. Two of these genes, AtBCB and parB, and a peroxidase gene from Arabidopsis (AtPox) also showed increased resistance to oxidative stress induced by diamide, while parB conferred resistance to Cu and Na. Al content of Al-treated root tips was reduced in the four Al-resistant plant lines compared with wild-type Ler-0, as judged by morin staining. All four Al-resistant lines also showed reduced staining of roots with 2',7'-dichloro fluorescein diacetate (H2DCFDA), an indicator of oxidative stress. We conclude that Al-induced genes can serve to protect against Al toxicity, and also provide genetic evidence for a link between Al stress and oxidative stress in plants.
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Ezaki, B., Gardner, R. C., Ezaki, Y., & Matsumoto, H. (2000). Expression of aluminum-induced genes in transgenic Arabidopsis plants can ameliorate aluminum stress and/or oxidative stress. Plant Physiology, 122(3), 657-665.
Expression of aluminum-induced genes in transgenic Arabidopsis plants can ameliorate aluminum stress and/or oxidative stress. / Ezaki, B.; Gardner, R. C.; Ezaki, Y.; Matsumoto, H.
In: Plant Physiology, Vol. 122, No. 3, 2000, p. 657-665.
Ezaki, B, Gardner, RC, Ezaki, Y & Matsumoto, H 2000, 'Expression of aluminum-induced genes in transgenic Arabidopsis plants can ameliorate aluminum stress and/or oxidative stress', Plant Physiology, vol. 122, no. 3, pp. 657-665.
Ezaki B, Gardner RC, Ezaki Y, Matsumoto H. Expression of aluminum-induced genes in transgenic Arabidopsis plants can ameliorate aluminum stress and/or oxidative stress. Plant Physiology. 2000;122(3):657-665.
Ezaki, B. ; Gardner, R. C. ; Ezaki, Y. ; Matsumoto, H. / Expression of aluminum-induced genes in transgenic Arabidopsis plants can ameliorate aluminum stress and/or oxidative stress. In: Plant Physiology. 2000 ; Vol. 122, No. 3. pp. 657-665.
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Preview no.1: grey theme with one highlighted color (orig. "deep sky blue 3") with builtin "Plastic" wm and one wallpaper (copyright by owner, i don't modify it, BTW, thanks for your work!).
Preview no.2 : icon settings. In this way,icons will change to normal coloration on mouse over only. You have to do this mannualy! i have no script (maybe someone helps me?) just when you like standard grey icons.
Preview no.3: another color. (Just switch to your favorite color;-) ... blue for the boys, pink for the girls.. just trie around if you like it.
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I've registered just to say that I really like this theme! I've been using it for quite some time and I really really like it.
I really enjoy this one.
if i choose install kde theme then its think think think and then stops. so i tried install it from console and it told me permission denied, i tried as root as well. nothing same stuff permission denied. whats the problem?
after some changes of colours - just great theme. thanks!
I like it but how do I get apps like Firefox and Evolution to play along with it and use the style?
Either use a cross-toolkit style like QtCurve (my favourite) or QtGtk.
OK, I'll give those a try. BTW Evolution on SUSE 9.3 does use the theme after a reboot.


A filling station in Dungiven has become the eighth victim of ATM thieves in Northern Ireland this year.
CCTV showed the theft followed the pattern of previous incidents with a stolen digger used to rip the ATM from the building, causing substantial damage, but the raiders did not set fire to the vehicle as in previous thefts.
Speaking on Sunday 7 April, detective inspector Richard Thornton said: "Unfortunately, the public and the business community are today waking to the news that another ATM machine has been stolen; that another business has been targeted by these brazen thieves.
"The theft from the filling station on Feeny Road was reported to us just before 4:30am. A digger, believed to have been taken from a site a short distance away, was used to rip the machine from the wall at the side of the shop leaving substantial damage to the building.
"On this occasion, the digger was not set alight and was located at the scene.
He added: "As in all of these ATM thefts, the actions of these criminals have not only caused immediate financial harm to the business targeted, but they have understandably caused fear in the community and impacted on a vital service many local people rely on.


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