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Statement in Response to the Statement of the Russian Federation on Linguistic Rights of National Minorities in Ukraine
Zveřejněno 18 března 2017 22:03
As for delivery by the Delegation of Ukraine to the 1137th meeting of the Permanent Council, 16 March 2017
Mr. Chairman,
In connection with the statement of the Delegation of the Russian Federation which raised the issue of linguistic rights of the national minorities in Ukraine, the Delegation of Ukraine would like to make the following comments in response.
At the outset, we need to underscore that the puzzle may come together for the Russian delegation if it stops denying the irrefutable facts of Russia's aggression against Ukraine. As witnessed over the past three years, Russia uses its unfounded claims of violations of rights of the Russian minority as a tool of its hybrid warfare and a distraction from its military intervention in Ukraine.
Presently due to the aggression of the Russian Federation we need to distinguish between two parts of Ukraine: one - under the control of the Government of Ukraine where all Ukrainian citizens can freely realize their rights, including linguistic, and where the authorities consistently aim to foster respect for human rights in close co-operation with respective international organizations, and another – illegally occupied by the Russian Federation (the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol) and the certain areas of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts controlled by the Russian hybrid forces that are transformed by the occupation authorities in the "exclusion zones for human rights".
Distinguished colleagues,
The establishment of an effective system of promotion and protection of rights of all national minorities and indigenous peoples, as well as support and development of tolerant inter-ethnic relations in Ukrainian society is among priorities of the National Human Rights Strategy of Ukraine and the respective Action Plan. They also aim at establishing an efficient mechanism for participation of representatives of national minorities in decision-making of state authorities and local self-government bodies.
The linguistic rights of the national minorities of Ukraine are guaranteed in the different spheres by the country's legislation.
The Constitution of Ukraine establishes the Ukrainian language as the state language of the country. At the same time, Article 10 of the Constitution guarantees the free development and usage of Russian and other languages of the national minorities of Ukraine in Ukraine.
According to Article 53 of the Constitution of Ukraine, citizens who belong to national minorities are guaranteed in accordance with the law the right to receive instruction in their native language, or to study their native language in state and communal educational institutions and through national cultural societies.
The Law "On the principles of the state language policy" further determined the linguistic rights at the community and local authorities level.
The Law "On the freedom of conscience and religious organizations" guarantees the linguistic rights in religious education, religious literature and ceremonies.
At the same time, as repeatedly underscored in this hall, numerous dire challenges of Ukraine and its people stem from Russia's aggression, its breach of international law and failure to honour its international commitments and obligations, including in the area of respect for human rights.
We continue to be profoundly concerned over the mounting repressions, serious human rights violations and discrimination perpetrated by Russia's occupation authorities against the Crimean Tatar national minority and ethnic Ukrainians in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol under the Russian illegal occupation.
The violations have been registered and documented by the United Nations and the OSCE ODIHR/HCNM missions, civil society organizations and human rights defenders. Half a million of ethnic Ukrainians and 250 thousand of ethnic Crimean Tatars have been effectively deprived of their right to maintain and develop their culture and national identity in Crimea. Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar TV channels and newspapers were closed. There is only one 13-minute television program in Ukrainian shown twice a week on the Crimean TV run by occupation authorities.
Throughout the period of illegal occupation of Crimea, the Russian occupation authorities have drastically limited curricula relating to teaching in the Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar languages at all levels.
As part of russification policies, the education system in Crimea has been entirely changed over to the Russian language. Most of the schools and classes with instruction in the Ukrainian language were requalified into instruction in Russian. Presently only 0.5% of children have the possibility to learn Ukrainian. The Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation has undertaken a massive compulsory "re-education of teachers of Ukrainian language and literature" for teaching in Russian. These subjects are made optional. All post-graduate programmes in Ukrainian philology, as well as almost all chairs in higher educational institutions have been closed.
Only one school with instruction completely in the Ukrainian language remains operational out of seven that existed before occupation. The number of Ukrainian classes in schools has been reduced to one-sixth comparing to the their number before the occupation. The school curricula are deliberately drafted to force the Crimean schoolchildren miss Ukrainian classes because they would overlap with the classes in mandatory subjects.
There is a serious problem around studies of subjects in the Crimean Tatar language. Presently, only 2.76% of schoolchildren in Crimea are learning the Crimean Tatar language. The units in scientific and educational institutions, especially higher institutions which were focused on the study of Crimean Tatar culture, have been shut. As a result, teachers and researchers with long careers of study of this subject lost their jobs.
Another area of major concern are the occupied territories of Donbas where the criminal activities of Russia-backed illegal armed formations led to internal displacement of over 1,7 million people and eradication of human rights and freedoms, including of national minorities, for the people who remained there.
The teachers and professors are forced to adapt the educational curriculums to the ones of the Russian Federation. There are now less than 2% of schoolchildren who study in the classes with the Ukrainian as the language of instruction, although in 2013/2014 school year there were 50,4% of them.
All the mass media in Ukrainian and other, except Russian, languages have been forcefully closed.
The Russian Federation bears direct responsibility for gross violation of linguistic and other rights of national minorities in the parts of Ukraine illegally occupied by Russia. These people feel defenceless because the Russian occupation authorities deny access of respective international organisations for permanent human rights monitoring. We call on the OSCE Chairmanship and the autonomous Institutions to be fully seized of this unacceptable situation and use all instruments at their disposal for effective monitoring and reaction to ongoing violation of human rights by Russia.
We urge Russia to fully implement the provisions of the UN General Assembly Resolution 71/205 "Situation of human rights in Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol (Ukraine)" of 19 December 2016 and the recommendations of the reports of the OSCE ODIHR/HCNM and the UN Human rights monitoring mission in Ukraine.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Velvyslanec Ukrajiny předal pověřovací listiny prezidentu České republiky
Statement on "Russia's on-going aggression against Ukraine and illegal occupation of Crimea"

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Remember the wonders the Lord has done…(Ps. 105,5)
On September 7th this year, I had the privilege of participating in the ceremony which marked the closure of the 150th anniversary celebrations of the founding of the Spiritan community at Chevilly-Larue in France. In 1863 Fr. Ignace Schwindenhammer, with the help of his own patrimony, purchased a hunting lodge on the outskirts of Paris belonging to the nobility of the day and transformed it into a home for future Spiritan missionaries and for the Superior General of a Congregation dedicated to the service of the poor. Written by the lives of ordinary, simple Spiritans, Brothers and priests, and their collaborators, the story of Chevilly is truly a remarkable one. It is the story of successive generations of formators and professors who through their wisdom and witness shaped the lives of some 4000 missionaries who in turn founded, formed and inspired flourishing Christian communities across the globe; more recently it is the story of the evolution of a community, once uniquely dedicated to the formation of young missionaries who left for foreign lands, into a home for them when they finally return due to old age or illness and when their mission takes on a new form, perhaps more important than when they were young and active, that of accepting their limitations with faith, dignity and joy and witnessing to God's healing and transforming presence in a world in need of hope and meaning.
The 150th anniversary of the founding of the community at Chevilly was but one of a series of similar events that took place in different parts of the Spiritan world in 2013 and 2014. These included the establishment of the Catholic Church on the island of Zanzibar; the opening of St. Mary's College in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, and the beginning of Spiritan presence on the island; the founding of Rockwell College, Ireland; the arrival of Spiritan missionaries and the foundation of the local Church in Sierra Leone, West Africa, where the celebrations envisaged for November 2014 have been postponed indefinitely due to the tragic outbreak of the Ebola virus; coincidentally, 2014 is also the 150th anniversary of the death of Blessed Jacques Laval in Mauritius. These various anniversaries reflect a period of extraordinary diversification and international expansion of the Congregation after the death of Francis Libermann and, consequently, the imaginative and courageous decisions taken with very limited resources by his gifted, if controversial, successor, Fr. Schwindenhammer. His period in office (1852-1881) incredibly saw 79 new foundations, 33 of which were in Europe or the United States, 25 in the West Indies and other former colonies, and the remainder in Africa. Several of these new foundations were actually seminaries, colleges or agricultural schools, and many were dedicated to the education and training of underprivileged young people in the society of the day.
It is very important that we commemorate and celebrate these and other significant milestones in our Spiritan history, particularly in the context of our current reflection on our identity as Spiritans. In the first place, memory is essential to our identity as the people of God. "Remember the wonders that the Lord has done," the Psalmist invites us (Ps. 105,5). The role of the Holy Spirit is precisely to remind us of all that the Lord has done in and through our human story, to help us discover the presence and action of God shaping his plan of love through the fabric of our human history, through the lives and actions of ordinary men and women, despite their limitations and mistakes. As so many of the Gospel parables tell us, memories of our experience of God's compassion, love and forgiveness in our own personal lives lead us in turn to be compassionate, loving and forgiving towards our brothers and sisters. Faith and memory are very closely linked; forgetfulness is often at the root of our failures. "Never forget the goodness of the Lord" (Ps. 103,2).
Secondly, as we recall memories of the past and the stories of those who have gone before us, we get in touch once again with our own deepest motivations as missionary religious, with what unites us most profoundly with our brothers and sisters in the Spiritan family, the call and the charism we share in common. We realize how much we owe both personally and collectively to those who have preceded us, to their inspiration, their vision and their courage. We are reminded once again that God can truly do wonderful things through the lives of ordinary men and women who are conscious of their own limitations but open to the power of the Holy Spirit. We discover that human weakness and failure are not necessarily an obstacle to God's grace or to the effectiveness of our witness; as Pope Francis pointed out in his address to Superior Generals in November 2013, "a religious who recognizes himself as weak and a sinner does not negate the witness he is called to give, rather he reinforces it and this is good for everyone."("Wake up the World," Antonio Spadaro, S.J., p.3)
I recently visited the Province of Canada in Quebec which has this intriguing motto: "Je me souviens (I remember)." "This motto has only three words," explained historian Thomas Chapais, "but these three words are worth more than the most eloquent speeches. Yes, we remember. We remember the past and its lessons, the past and its misfortunes, the past and its glories…(This motto) says so eloquently in three words the past as well as the present and the future," adds archivist Pierre-Georges Roy. Memory not only concerns the past. The way we remember the past determines to a large extent how we live in the present and actually shapes our future. Just as negative memories of hurt and injustice affect the way we perceive the world, our relationships with others and our capacity for enjoyment, and to a very real extent limit the possibilities for our future, so positive memories of the experience of love, of acceptance, of the inspiration and support of others, equally colour our ability to relate to our brothers and sisters and shape our future in a positive way. "Memories of love make possible all our achievements," said Mr. William Dietrich, the American philanthropist, as he gave away his vast fortune in 2011 to various educational institutions in Pittsburgh. "They give us the confidence to take risks and reach beyond ourselves."
Margaret Silf, the British writer, expresses the same conviction in a different way: "Everything that has happened to and in (this place) has made it what it is today, which in turn is the seed of everything it has the potential to become…our history matters- our collective stories and personal ones. When we listen to our memories, we expose hidden layers of who we are. We have a sacred duty to share our treasure with those who follow. If we don't, we risk becoming one-dimensional beings with no depth beyond the immediate impulse, no hinterland to lend perspective, and a very diminished sense of who we are. Let us tell our stories. They are our gift to the future."(Compass Points, p. 208)
In the words of Pope Francis: "Tradition and the memory of the past must help us to have the courage to open up new areas to God" (Interview with Antonio Spadaro, S.J., August 2013). We will shortly celebrate the foundational story of our Christian faith, the coming of the Son of God among us, divesting himself of status and dignity and identifying himself totally with our human condition, thus opening up a new future for humanity. May the commemoration of this extraordinary event deepen our awareness of our call as Spiritans to identify with and share the lives of those on the margins of contemporary society, giving them new hope and dignity; may it give us, as it gave those who preceded us, the courage to open up in our hearts, in our communities and in our Congregation "new areas to God."
John Fogarty, C.S.Sp.
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Josef Pieper on Erich Przywara
January 28, 2014 / Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist.
As there has been a lot of talk about Erich Przywara recently (due to an English translation of Analogia Entis), I was reminded of the following passages of Josef Pieper's autobiography. Pieper wrote three volumes of autobiography–all fascinating stuff; it's a pity only the first vol. has been translated into English.
My journey to Basle had a very special significance. I had come into contact with a small, budding association of young people First of all I found their behavior rather mysterious. For instance the new candidate was observed from time to time, more or less without his knowledge, and evidently was being thoroughly evaluated. But there was no secrecy whatsoever about the unusual nature of membership of the society, nor about its advantages. Initially one did not have to pay anything; later, of course, when one was in appropriate financial circumstances, all the resources of which a member had made use were to be repaid, according to the very sensible maxim, which I have later found to be true a hundred times, that what is given for nothing is worth nothing, —So, for years, I actually paid more than a tenth of my not inconsiderable assistant's salary, every month, to this group of people, without a moment's regret. What I had gained was far more wonderful than the money; money could not have bought it. Basically it was an attempt to vie with the university, since it was clear that the latter could not be expected to provide a really human education, nor even a philosophical and theological foundation for the knowledge pursued by the various disciplines. So we bound ourselves for two years to participate in a kind of studium generale during the long semester vacations.
[…] The word "vacation course" hardly gives any idea of the enormous intensity of work, compared with the average university course, which was expected of us as if it were the most natural thing in the world. Every morning we had two hours of lectures, every afternoon a seminar, and every evening a colloquium. But again, what was most unusual was the teacher, the inner style of his thought and also his manner of teaching. In Germany at that time there must hardly have been anyone as thoroughly at home in the great tradition of philosophy and theology (and not only the European tradition) as Erich Przywara, who at the same time, on the basis of no less immediate a grasp of the problems, participated so energetically in the most contemporary controversies—on phenomenology, on Sigmund Freud, on dialectical theology. It was the public disputation between him and Karl Barth, which took place in the University of Münster more than a decade before the Second World War, that started the "dialogue" between the Christian denominations which has since been the subject of so much discussion.
[…] I myself once played a somewhat macabre practical joke on Erich Przywara—and to this day I do not know whether he forgot all about it or not. At the time he must have been shocked by it, for our class spokesman, who used to accompany him, told me the following day that the best thing would be not to utter another word about the whole business, not even so much as to apologize. What happened was this: late one night Przywara, who was an extremely sensitive and vulnerable man, came back from a visit in the neighborhood and entered his room, not suspecting anything, to be confronted with the sight of himself, lying dead in his own soutane, raised on a bier improvised out of his couch and some trestles, with a candle burning at his side and his breviary on his breast open at the prayers for the dead. All this was illuminated by the pale, gray light from the ceiling bulb which I had covered with an inverted open umbrella.
Przywara's lectures were almost exactly the opposite of "scholastic" philosophy, in spite of the almost pedantically precise "dispositions" we found on the table every morning. One of the jobs we had to do in rotation was to reproduce copies of these on a primitive apparatus. As a result of this guided study, which linked the historical with the systematic in a brilliant way, I saw for the first time that every attempt to produce an absolutely tight system runs counter to the real-life situation of the finite spirit, of man's creaturehood. It is a pity that Przywara could not see his way to publish these philosophical-theological lectures in their breadth of perspective, in spite of their being perhaps somewhat vulnerable in their initial formulation. The unfinished, and hardly readable book, Analogia Entis (1932), which he himself declares is the quintessence of his view, in fact gives no idea of the wealth of concrete material he spread out before us in those days.
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modestinus
It's worth noting that the edition of Analogia Entis now in English (which, thanks to a friend at Eerdmans, I now have — sans awful price tag!) is not of the original work Pieper refers to here but rather the later "collected edition" that came out in the 1960s. The first half of the book is the original AE; the second half is a series of articles and essays which elaborate and defend aspects of the original AE. They were arranged under Przywara's supervision and so, arguably, should be read now as an integral part of the work rather than mere appendices.
John Betz's introduction to the book is substantially (something like 150 pages). It repeats some material he offered in an earlier article that was collected in The Analogy of Being anthology that Eerdmans put out a few years ago, but much of it is quite fresh — and difficult. But it's a necessary labor, I suppose, since only a handful of specialists today would probably appreciate what Przywara was up to and why it caused such a tremendous (and arguably needless) stir at the time. I found it interesting that Przywara, at least in his public statements, took Barth's "invention of antichrist" line as a joke. It would be something of Bart actually meant it that way…
Barth did like making jokes. He once said this about Dorothee Sölle: "a lady of whom the only thing one can really say is that _that_ woman should keep silence in the church."
Presumably Conor Cunningham was also joking when he suggested recently that the anti-Christ was not analogia entis, but rather natura pura (LOL): http://www.communio-icr.com/files/cunningham37-2.pdf
Oh boy. I've been reading Feingold's book again and I have yet to find an intelligent critique of the work. Milbank, in The Suspended Middle, just decries it as a reactionary effort and leaves it at that. (Heaven forbid Milbank should read 500 pages of something that doesn't fit within his theological black box.) There was a time, when Orthodox, that I would have gladly bought into the Lubacian critique, but a lot of that has unraveled for me in the face of more recent scholarship. For a time I couldn't quite understand why this was such a "big deal" and, by extension, by the Radical Orthodoxy crowd especially hung their hats on the rejection of natura pura, After reading Reinhard Hutter's account and connecting up the Lubac/Bulgakov "synthesis" that Milbank relies on to build a case for universal redemption, it's become a lot clearer to me now — and it's also become a lot clearer why pure nature has to be defended.
What would you think of Nick Healy's brief discussion of these things re: Feingold, Hutter, and DeLubac in the Communio winter 2008 edition? Obviously he can only treat things in a cursory way, but it is illuminating as to your questions, and why natura pura shouldn't be defended, as it presents an equally slippery slope.
Modestinus, here's the link to the Healy article, you can download it in pdf:
http://www.communio-icr.com/articles/view/henri-de-lubac-on-nature-and-grace-a-note-on-some-recent-contributions-to-t


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The current rules requiring two doctors to sign forms before a woman can have an abortion should be removed to reduce delays in the procedure, an influential group of MPs has said.
The Commons Science and Technology Select Committee, which has been investigating issues around terminations, also found no scientific justification for lowering the current 24-week legal limit.
Its report also claims there is no reason why women should not be able to take the second stage of an early medical abortion in their own home.
The news comes after a poll by campaign group Abortion Rights, which was reported in managementinpractice.com, found 52% of people believe the law should be changed so that women no longer have to see two doctors in order to have a termination.
Committee chairman Phil Willis said: "Abortion is a complex issue. Legislative decisions are informed by ethical, moral, religious and political views, case law, scientific and medical evidence.
"As a Science and Technology Committee, we have focused on the science, and have done so rigorously.
"In our inquiry we have attempted to sift the evidence on scientific and medical developments since the last amendment of the law in 1990 and since the 1967 Act.
"We urge all MPs and the public to study the evidence we have taken and the conclusions we have reached."
Science and Technology Committee


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I get through the sleepless days of being a stay-at-home dad, freelance writer and DIY remodeler with copious quantities of tea. I drink Celestial Seasonings Morning Thunder tea in a big beer stein, which I believe to be quite manly.
I also hate to throw out anything I could reuse or recycle. So I scoured the Internet to find 50 uses for used tea bags and tea, other than the primary functions of keeping me hydrated and awake. With thanks to "Reader's Digest" and "Mental Floss" magazines, the Boulder Dushanbe Tea House, Chinaculture.org and several bloggers and Web forums, here is the definitive list of other uses for tea. We can't vouch for all these home remedies, as we weren't able to test all 50 of these items, so let us know how they work. Also tell us if we missed anything.
1. Clean carpets: Clean up musty, dirty carpets by sprinkling dry, used green tea leaves on the carpet. Let them work their magic for about 10 minutes, then vacuum them up.
2. Clean antique rugs: Delicate Persian and Oriental rugs can also benefit from a sprinkling of tea leaves. In this case, sprinkle nearly dry, used whole tea leaves on the rugs, and gently sweep them away.
3. Shine wood floors: The tannins in black tea can help shine and color hardwood flooring. Follow your regular floor cleaning routine by carefully rubbing some brewed tea into the floor (don't use too much water on hardwood flooring) and letting it air dry.
4. Polish furniture: Brewed tea also can help clean and shine wood furniture. Dip a soft cloth in a small amount of tea, and use it to wipe down the tables, chairs and more.
5. Clean mirrors and windows: Tea can remove stubborn, greasy fingerprints from glass, and make it sparkle. Simply rub a damp teabag on the glass or fill a spray bottle with brewed tea.
6. Clean toilet stains: Rumor has it that used tea bags can magically remove stubborn stains in the bottom of the toilet bowl. Just leave them in the toilet for several hours, then flush the toilet and brush the bowl.


In classic Norwegian fashion, everybody arrives at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in their practical snow boots, carrying their stylish shoes in plastic supermarket bags for a quick switcheroo beside the coat check. There is an implicit agreement not to stare at others' feet until they have had the chance to don their classy dress shoes.
We have already presented our invitations, tickets and photo ID's to armed security officers, who found our names on the thick, stapled guest list. We passed through a security check and numerous stoic police officers, and then finally climbed the steps of Oslo Radhuset, the City Hall.
According to the ceremony invitation, "light snacks and beverages" are to be served at 11:30, with guests expected to find their seats around 12:30. I'm looking forward to this hour of mingling and hor d'oeuvres and playing the classic 'how did he/she wrangle an invitation to this prestigious event?' guessing game. Four of the Fulbright grantees won tickets in a lottery, and two more of us (including me) wrote in with apparently compelling reasons for why we would like tickets.
The "light snacks" comprise three different types of delicious baked goods: tiny brownie squares, almond lady fingers and chocolate-bottomed macaroons, tactfully chosen to minimize the 'green specks in teeth' dilemma, no doubt. The beverages are coffee (surprise, surprise) and tea, as well as champagne glasses filled with orange soda, coke and coke zero.
At first we Fulbrighters cluster together, ogling the refined and polished dignitaries around us. Most are in dark suits and stylish dresses, though there is the occasional brightly colored and shimmery wrap. I, myself, am wearing a black dress and black top, which I am hoping is more on the positive end of the funeral-elegant spectrum. English and Norwegian drift through the air, along with strains of German and Spanish from clusters of foreign ambassadors.
"Friends, I think we should mingle," announces one Fulbrighter finally.
I am not necessarily bold enough to barge in on an established cluster and inquire how they are liking the refreshments, so I seek out the other people who look alone and pensive. First I meet a young diplomat from Burundi and then a library science student from Spain, who had just finished her internship at the Nobel library.
After this empowering speech, I head to the ladies room where I discover that my cheap lipstick has smeared dramatically. Just call me Ol' Clown Lips.
Even though normal Norwegian protocol would stipulate 'thou shalt not make small talk with other female strangers in bathroom line,' I figure that today's special occasion might allow for some norm-bending. I have shifted my opening line. "So, is this your first peace prize ceremony?" I ask the woman behind me.
"Oh no," she assures me, "I've been to many." Before she can reveal why, as in, what high powered position she holds, the line shifts abruptly and I enter a stall. Even I can't justify bending the rule of 'thou shalt not make small talk with other female strangers in the bathroom line whilst thou are using the bathroom.' I never find out who she is.
When I get back out, I encounter another excitement: one of my favorite Norwegian actresses is in the house! This means a lot because I haven't seen too many movies entirely in Norwegian (speech, subtitles, etc.), but there is one actress who keeps popping up in the few I have seen, and that is Marit Andreassen. At the time, I don't remember her name, only the name of the movie I recognize her from (but this alone causes me great satisfaction). Even though she plays the marriage-breaking ice queen boss in the film, I still like her for her Emma Thompsonesque appeal. And now she is at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony!!!
"Oh, you look just like one," I mutter, and thankfully she is gone before I can elaborate that it is the marriage-breaking ice queen boss whom I am thinking of.
When I get home that night, first I use IMDB to figure out her actual name, and then I google "Was Marit Andreassen at the Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony?" (unfruitful) and then I google "Politicians who look like Marit Andreassen" (also unfruitful). I reluctantly let the issue go.
Eventually, the ushers shoo us to our seats in the vast main building. The City Hall is relatively new (inaugurated 1950), with colorful murals decking the walls. Seats have been preassigned, and I am row 28 of 31, along with the other nobodies. On each seat is a headset where you can listen to the speeches translated into Norwegian, if you would like. A large screen up front shows a close-up of the speakers, performers, and sometimes the audience. Before I know it, we are seeing a scene of the Norwegian king and queen entering the building. We rise and a horn procession heralds their arrival into the hall.
The ceremony itself consists of various performances (violin, piano, baritone) interspersed with a speech from Thorbjørn Jagland, the head of the Norwegian Nobel Committee (whose name means 'thunder bear') and Ahmet Uzumcu, the director-general of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. I am also enthralled by the cameraman to my right wearing a full-body "steady-cam" suit with an enormous camera attached. Equally enthralling is the assistant who holds onto a handle on the cameraman's back and makes sure the cameraman doesn't fall down the steps in photo-inspired excitement. There are a few close calls.
When it is over, we all rise again as the royal couple exits. I am reminded, suddenly, of the last time I saw their faces: in a framed family portrait inside the outhouse of the forest cabin I visited last weekend.
We linger, photographing, running fingers along the backs of the chairs where the royal families sat, admiring the elaborate Nobel flower bouquets. There's something so surreal about the whole experience. This was the Nobel Peace Prize: one of the most (the most?) prestigious prizes in the world! In the room, I felt the shadows of past prize winners: Nelson Mandela, Barack Obama, Rigoberta Menchu, Jane Addams, Mother Theresa, Elie Wiesel, Wangari Maathai, Muhammad Yunus, Martin Luther King Jr., and more. When I think about it deeply, I'm blown away.
I feel so lucky to have had the opportunity to be a part of the event: to brush shoulders with distinguished foreign diplomats, to embrace my lowly 28th-row status, to devour light snacks and beverages, to watch the passing of the award and hear the speeches…all a part of what it meant to experience, first-hand, the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony. Thanks, Norway.


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Glittering tinsel, tinkling tinhorns, brassy horns a plenty, and of course silver bells--who knew Christmas time was so...metallic? And while we're all about changing up your style to suit the season, we prefer a more subtle holiday shout-out. Merry, but mature. Festive, yet feminine.
Enter Ina Beissner, german-born master of clean-cut italian style, with the tiniest touch of charm and whimsy. Her Bell-Studded Rings and Bell-Studs Earrings--both available in silver--are a simple staple of sophisticated style, with a subtle nod to the holiday season. Her Square Bell Ring continues the theme, but with an angular, modern touch. And for full-on festive fashion, Beissner's Bells Trio Necklace is a fête-worthy piece that's irresistibly inviting.
What's more, these solid sterling silver bells are modestly priced, at around $300--or less! And if you prefer a warmer pallet, Beissner offers the option to turn your silver bells gold. 18k gold, to be precise.
Either way, it's KAVUT's Christmas time in the city--classy, charming, and chic.


Very recently, Mike Chorey and the team from Joshua Revolution, brought the Niagara Youth Conference back to Western New York. The compelling 25th Anniversary event was reprised at the Niagara Falls Conference and Event Center, while kids and families were able to stay at the Sheraton immediately across the street and be part of a formidable move of God. "The power of the Holy Spirit was at that conference and it went well," recalled Chorey.
The conference turned an unimaginable tragedy into a powerful triumph right out of the gate! It opened with the movie, "I'm Not Ashamed," the 2016 film that told the absolutely captivating story of Rachel Scott's faith and death. "It was like you could have heard a pin drop. For two hours, those kids were glued to that movie," Chorey observed.
Besides the cast of "I'm Not Ashamed," Niagara '18 was blessed with a number of remarkable artists and speakers. Pastor Wally Magdangal was a missionary whose impact through the underground church in the Muslim world will be felt endlessly. Abducted, imprisoned, and tortured by Islamic extremists for some 70 grueling days, Magdangal was sentenced to death and scheduled for public hanging on Christmas Day. Still, he never gave up his faith in Jesus Christ and was miraculously set free in the nick of time.
Former NFL great Jerry Butler also shared his heart. Butler, one of the original speakers at Niagara '93, was a wide receiver for the Buffalo Bills. The list was long and impacting, and included people such as, Bob and Sharon Cornell, Brian Haney, and many others — and of course, Chorey himself.
The question of the next event was probably on people's minds before this one let out. "We're praying about whether or not to do another conference. We don't really know at this point. We're going to pray about it," Chorey admits. "Obviously, it's a lot of work. We are a small team. It takes a little bit of money to do it. What we want to do is first is tie up all the loose ends from Niagara '18, send out all the thank-you's, which we're doing, follow up with the churches, and then just really begin to pray. Probably sometime in February — early March, we'll make a decision based on what we really feel the leading of the Lord is on this." Plenty of people will be waiting for that decision!
For more information about the conference or Joshua Revolution, you can visit their website at www.joshuarevolution.org, e-mail them at info@joshuarevolution.org, or call Joshua Revolution at (716) 229-8000 or toll free at (888) 444-2920.


When Should You Start Looking for Fraud?
Regardless of the type of scheme or size of the organization, many employees who defraud their employers either get themselves into a predicament or have personalities that are more prone to "cross the line" if given the opportunity. With that being said, there are common behavioral red flags that may be present and are indicative of unscrupulous behavior.
Substance abuse, gambling habits and living beyond one's means are the most common behavioral indicators of malfeasance.
Family instability like unsure employment (or spouse's employment) and extraordinary medical expenses are all potential motivators to commit fraud.
Costly legal problems often create pressures that may lead an individual to desperate measures.
A cheating spouse who maintains an expensive affair might find himself or herself in a predicament to make up the shortfall.
If a person displays a questionable code of ethics and is willing to engage in dishonest behavior in other aspects of their life, it will often follow that the same inclination exists at work. Do not ignore workplace "buzz." Look for clues indicative of participation in unethical behavior.
Pay close attention to the employee who shows constant unhappiness with their job. Employees who feel unfairly treated can more easily rationalize their inappropriate actions.
Remain alert to employees who show tendencies to work around the system and who habitually try to find a way around established policies and procedures. These employees may have a propensity to attempt to "beat the system" for personal gain.
Dishonest employees are often reluctant to relinquish control, share information or swap tasks with colleagues. To conceal their improper activity, they may go to great lengths to ensure that sensitive documents or data are never out of view.
It can be tempting for employers to overlook the employee that comes in early, stays late and generally seems "too good to be true." An employee who looks for opportunities to be alone in the workplace could pose a problem. The same is true for an employee who never takes a vacation. Numerous frauds have been uncovered when employees who, after extended periods of perfect attendance, suddenly have an unexpected illness and are unable to prevent incriminating evidence from coming to light.
We never know when an honest person will begin to commit fraud, but we need to be aware and watch for the telltale signs. If we look, we may find a spouse or child on drugs, in the hospital or even in prison. Any of these reasons, and many others, may indicate an employee's need to raise cash.
Note: the existence of one or two indicators does not necessarily mean that an employee is stealing – but a red flag should always prompt a closer look.


$600 cash prize will be distributed amongst any young person from a refugee background in the winning team to use towards an education goal. This prize is jointly sponsored by MDA Ltd and Access Community Services.
Following the success of the Techfugees hackathon in Melbourne and Sydney, it's Brisbane's turn!
TechfugeesBNE Hackathon will bring together developers, designers, entrepreneurs and community members to develop creative tech solutions to help refugee and assettle into the Queensland community.
Former refugees and asylum seekers who have already settled in Australia will participate in the event to help teams deeply understand opportunities and challenges faced by new settlers and co-design solutions.
The event will be hosted by our sponsors at RiverCity Labs in partnership with Marist180, MDA Ltd, Access Community Services, Multilink, Australian Red Cross, Welcome to Australia and Urban Informatics Research Lab @ QUT Design Lab.
Come make a difference, have some fun, learn a lot and help to welcome refugees to the Queensland community.
Looking for inspiration on what to work on over the weekend? Check out the Techfugees Hackpad for projects that need help!
During our welcome event on Friday evening 17 March 2017, we encourage you to team up with individuals with different skill sets (software, design, product dev) and work on a challenge that everybody wants to solve.
We have posted a link to the Problem statements and check the Techfugees Hackpad for projects that also need help!
The inability of people with a disability to know about and access support.
Lack of recognition of qualifications; lack of work references and Australian employment experience.
Lack of ability to access support to become familiar with systems, knowledge and networks to start own business in Australia.
Many refugees and asylum seekers experience chronic illness and yet are unaware of the range of medical services to support them.
Insecure housing as a result of limited income, overcrowding, exploitation acts as a major barrier to the successful long term settlement for people.
Without English proficiency or access to interpreters, refugees and asylum seekers are disadvantaged yet only some categories of visas are allowed to access the maximum of 510 hours of English classes.
People at the time of arrival cannot be expected to know all the elements of Australia's legal system and may break laws here that did not exist in their home country.
Access to skilled and qualified legal advocates is critical and yet, as a result of demand, is not available to everyone seeking asylum.
The lack of recognition of skills and qualifications gained overseas wastes the lives of refugees and asylum seekers as they are unable to work in their area of expertise. Australia's productivity is also disadvantaged.
Without access to interpreters, refugees and asylum seekers with limited English are unable to negotiate systems, access services or understand critical information about themselves and yet funding for interpreting services is diminishing and many people are not offered access.
We need Hackers, Hipsters Hustlers and Humanitarians to form teams, as well as volunteers to help at the event.
We need Hackers, Hipsters Hustlers and Humanitarians to form teams. We are also looking for volunteers to help facilitate during the day and make sure the event runs smoothly. You can register as a volunteer on Eventrbrite.


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November 18, 2013 England
And now back to the cricket
Because time waits for no-one. You might think you can dawdle around, taking things in, but you can't. Time is ravaging you.
It's a slow process, but it's happening all the time. Your pancreas is getting wrinkly; your spleen is going grey; your brain is starting to ache in cold weather. It's already time to move on. None of us can afford to spend a second day discussing the most culturally significant cricketer who ever lived because there are massively unimportant-yet-current things to discuss, such as the identity of England's third-seamer for the first Ashes Test.
It's going to be Chris Tremlett.
Now that discussion's over, we can move onto Shane Shillingford being reported for a suspect action. As ever with the chucking issue, you need to pick a side and stick to it FOREVER. Changing your mind about anything, ever, is a sign of massive weakness.
You're not weak are you? No, you're not. Although as explained above, you're steadily weakening. You should therefore fully exploit what little remains of your life by launching yourself into petty, pointless 'debate'. Do it with gusto. It's what life would be about, if it were about anything. Which it isn't.
A picture of a massive cricket bat
Shane Watson is a batsman
Wolverhampton Cricket Club v Leamington Cricket Club match report
Continuing to miss Sachin Tendulkar
England v Australia, fourth Test match report from Chester-le-Street
So David Saker holds a press conference where he says 'We know who the third seamer is but we're not telling you'.
Then he, or someone else in the England camp, gives 'off the record briefings' to journalists saying it's going to be Tremlett.
Then all the journalists write articles saying it's going to be Tremlett.
Let's set out what we know. All three of them are exactly 6ft 7in tall, so all equally capable of reaching a biscuit on the floor with their feet nailed to the ceiling. Each has three names, their unused ones being William, Timothy and Thomas, so little to choose between them there either. Two public schools and a grammar school – nope. Finn and Rankin are right-arm fast-medium, whereas Tremlett is right-arm-medium-fast – a possible plus mark for Tremlett there. Steven Finn has by far the best ODI batting average, but that doesn't feel particularly relevant here. So what defining characteristic is relevant to the first Ashes test? In the end, it has to come down to nicknames.
We've got Twiggy, Finny and Boydo. That settles it. Only one of them has an official nickname that isn't just their own name spoken badly. Twiggy Tremlett it is.
All of the carefully leaked information about Tremlett is exactly why I expect it to be Finn.
excuse my naivete, but i never understood all the bloody fuss over spinners being reported for throwing. the throwing law(s) originated to stop batsman risking their lives against dodgy quicks. what conceivable advantage does a spinner gain from "chucking"? spin is all about precision, right..? who cares what the action looks like or whether the elbow is straightened beyond yadda yadda blah blah. at some point the self-appointed guardians of the game got themselves confused and decided that the whole question of legal or illegal bowling actions was about preserving cricket's aesthetic purity… this is bollocks.
mike atherton gave this short shrift in one of his "books" (actually just a bunch of cobbled-togerher newspaper columns). he says that as captain of lancs, one of his bowlers got fed up with murali and announced (quietly) that he was going to do the same thing, and nwould gain tons of spin in so doing. he tried it, the ball flew off down the leg side for four wides, the bowler reddened and no more was ever said about it.
i am ready to be corrected here… in the meantime, i consider the whole fuss over spinners throwing to be ABSOLUTE BULLSHIT. and sod michael parkinson while we're at it.
Yeah, pretty much. It's usually a load of sanctimonious huffing from those looking to preserve the 'purity' of the game.
Elbow bending does confer an advantage to spinners, in that it makes the doosra easier to bowl. Make your own mind up whether or not that is a good thing.
It basically boils down to a massive grey area and when you step fractionally beyond it, you are labelled a cheat and treated like a pariah.
Bang on, Cent. Bang on.
oh yeah, i forgot about the doosra. sigh… the purity fascists may actually have a point there, in that it (may or) may not be physically possible to bowl that ball without "cheating". OTOH… now that the delivery has been invented, it's not going away is it?
No, no, no Cent. Don't backtrack. With the Doosra, you have to answer these two questions – and your original rant stands:
– is bowling the Doosra dangerous?
– is the sport better of with or without the Doosra (all things being equal)?
Answers UNEQUIVOCALLY are clear:
– better with
Let spinners chuck – if they can. It's difficult.
yep, you're absolutely right on both counts.
i take back my backtracking 🙂
Dan M says:
the thing is, if you allow unlimited elbow bend, then bowlers will be able to incorporate all the ridiculous deliveries that baseball has, only now with extra motion because they can bounce.
like, Stephen Strasburg's curveball hits 90mph and has trickier flight than any offbreak– if you allow that to bounce and turn then it'll be unplayable and probably dangerous.
so that's the bottom of the slippery slope. but it seems totally reasonable to put up walls at some point along that slope so you don't actually fall and hit the bottom. right?
on another note entirely, is tendulkar really the most culturally-significant cricketer who ever lived? would it not make more sense to consider him in a select group including grace, bradman, viv richards..?
That way would have lain clumsy sentence construction. Sometimes it's best to read what we write for gist. Our output rarely stands up to scrutiny.
He shares Watson's first name.
Fucking chucker.
What rule of any sport anywhere ever can't be labeled illogical? Why no forward passes in rugby? Why only the feet in football? Why does every red have to be followed by a colour in snooker? There is no answer to any of these questions. The rules are what they are; the set of rules defines any sport entirely.
The rule in cricket is no bent arms. Complaining about it is equivalent to a batsman asking for a reason why he has to stop batting just because the ball hit his wicket. The only important thing is that ALL players play to the same rules. Trying to craft a law that allows spinners but not fast bowlers to bowl with a bent arm would test anyone.
Except that in the case of "chcuking", the rules seem to be evolving with time, and bowlers are under much pressure to correct what comes naturally to them. No one gave a shit about elbow angles in the 70's and 80's till it was *made* an issue. The problem with rules in cricket in general is that they seem to be a dynamical quantity that increasingly favor batsmen. Bowlers have to put up with free-hits, small boundaries, crap pitches, no fielders near boundary, and less than fifteen degree arms. While batsmen swing away to glory. No other sport looks to specifically disadvantage one set of players quite like cricket does.
The chucking law has been weakened over time. If anything, it has been weakened to help bowlers, for whom slo-mo analysis would have revealed huge amounts of trangression.
There is no usable law that can differentiate between spinners and fast bowlers, so any law must apply to both. If you want to let spinners chuck, by definition you'll be allowing Michael Holding to chuck.
You saying that has reminded me of a time 2 years ago when our club cricket league bought in legside wides for the top 2 divisions. At the meeting to decided it, Im not exagerating when I say that an argument went on for 40 minutes. Basically, a couple of the old fuddies on the committee wanted legside wides to only apply to seamers as it was "unfair" on spinners that started the ball straight. As their argument grew weaker, this changed to being no wides for off-spinners bowling to right handers and leggies bowling to left handers. Lovely stuff, especially when they confused themselves over chinaman bowlers bowling to left handers.
Let 'em all chuck. Batsmen have it too easy right now, the big girl's blouses. About time bowlers got an advantage.
Any law based on a particular angle of 'chuck', to be determined in real time as the bowler runs past is so hard to accurately enforce that it might as well not exist. It just gets used where officials have pre-existing suspicions of the bowlers involved.
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Violently.
With all of you.
That's the spirit.
England's batting improves a bit
Lancashire are still not quite relegated
Death of a Gentleman's out on DVD
Australia, you have been sherminated
Was that really a good Test match?


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Live in London 1980 is a live album by the Fall, released in 1982 on cassette on the Chaos Tapes label. Initially a limited edition of 4,000 copies, the album has since been reissued several times as The Legendary Chaos Tape.

Recording and release
The Fall had played two nights at the 600-capacity Acklam Hall venue (later known as Bay 63 and Subterania, before reopening as a nightclub) in Notting Hill on 11 and 12 December 1980, performing material from the recently released Grotesque (After the Gramme) album as well as songs that would later appear on Slates and Hex Enduction Hour. The band had been booked by Mike Hinc, who claimed that the band had broken the terms of their contract by playing another gig in London, at the 100 Club, a week earlier, which Hinc claimed "split the audience and meant a bad night for everyone". Featuring the performance from the 11th, recorded by Grant Showbiz, the original release misidentified a handful of tracks, with "An Older Lover etc" being listed simply as "?" - although the track was unreleased at the time of the performance, Slates had been issued nearly a year prior to this cassette. Mark E. Smith also told the NME that he felt Chaos Tapes had released the wrong recording and that the 12th had seen a better performance (as quoted in the 2004 edition sleevenotes by Daryl Easlea).

The recording is of only adequate sound quality and the performance is notably shoddy in places, with some songs badly fluffed by the group and even Smith making lyrical errors. However, it dated from a time when live albums by The Fall were not the regular occurrence they later became and the 4000-copy edition on Chaos Tapes was snapped up quickly. Just a few weeks later, the group released one of their most highly regarded studio albums, Hex Enduction Hour.

Chaos Tapes was a short-lived imprint, specialising in live material by established punk artists and releasing exclusively on the cassette format; the inner sleeve of this release advertised previous releases by the likes of Anti-Pasti, Discharge, Vice Squad, Chelsea and G.B.H.

Reissues
The album has been issued on CD four times. It was issued via Scout Releases/Rough Trade in 1996, in the US only through Feel Good All Over in 1997 and then in 1999 through the group's own Cog Sinister imprint. On each of these occasions it was issued under the title The Legendary Chaos Tape. Castle Music restored the original title upon a further reissue in 2004 and added three more tracks taken from London performances in November 1980; "Cary Grant's Wedding", "Totally Wired" and "The NWRA". The sleeve does not identify the exact venues where these tracks were recorded. This edition was also released on vinyl by Italian label Earmark in 2005.

Reception

Edwin Pouncey, reviewing the album for Sounds, gave it four stars, commenting that "the recording quality is good, with Mark's voice predominantly up front, providing some excellent moments, notably 'New Face in Hell' where Mark's vocal is mutated into a shrieking echo spitting out the words to some crazy nightmare."

Ned Raggett, reviewing the 1995 CD reissue for AllMusic, gave it three stars, stating that it "captures more of the anti-smooth genius that was and is the Fall", and that it includes "some of the Fall's all-time best". A review of the 1997 CD release on the Feel Good All Over label was also given three stars by the site's Ted Mills, who stated that the "performance is vintage Fall", and called it "past glories covered with a patina of analog distortion".

The original cassette release reached number 7 in the UK Independent Chart in 1982, spending ten weeks on the chart in total.

Track listing
"Middle Mass/Crap Rap"
"English Scheme"
"New Face In Hell"
"That Man"
"An Older Lover etc."
"Slates, Slags etc."
"Prole Art Threat"
"Container Drivers"
"Jawbone And The Air-Rifle"
"In The Park"
"Leave The Capitol"
"Spectre Vs Rector"
"Pay Your Rates"
"Impression Of J Temperance"

Personnel
Mark E. Smith – vocals
Marc Riley – guitar, vocals
Craig Scanlon - guitar
Steve Hanley – bass guitar
Paul Hanley – drums

References

The Fall (band) live albums
1982 live albums

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Thursday night's White House meeting is the third in the space of 24 hours for Obama.
No 'wild optimism'
By DAVID ROGERS
Facing a midnight Friday deadline, the White House and Republicans have substantially narrowed their differences on spending but still fear a government shutdown because of a serious divide over anti-abortion policy riders demanded by House conservatives.
"I am not yet prepared to express wild optimism," said President Barack Obama, after meeting with top leaders again Thursday night, the third such Oval Office session in the space of less than 24 hours. But at his direction, senior White House staff returned to the Capitol for meetings with the Appropriations Committees that ran well past midnight, and Obama made clear that he needed a final answer Friday morning as to whether a deal can be reached.
"Because the machinery of the shutdown is necessarily starting to move, I expect an answer in the morning," Obama said. "My hope is, is that I'll be able to announce to the American people sometime relatively early in the day that a shutdown has been averted…That's what I hope to be able to announce tomorrow. There's no certainty yet, but I expect an answer sometime early in the day."
The House GOP leadership confirmed later that a meeting of the Republican Conference has been tentatively scheduled for Friday at noon. But as a measure of how skittish the situation remains, aides rushed to add that no one yet expects that this will be used to vet a potential deal.
In a joint statement Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) pledged to work "to resolve our remaining differences." But Reid made no attempt to hide his pessimism: "We never get to the finish line" he told colleagues later. And the changed mood left Boehner suddenly a target for Senate Democrats, who had warmly praised him just days ago.
At the same time, the president's own leverage has appeared to grow, as the focus moved beyond spending toward social policy.
Calling the GOP's bluff and thereby protecting fellow Democrats, Obama promised to veto a last effort by House Republicans seeking political cover from the fallout that is sure to follow any government shutdown at a time when the nation is at war.
Adopted 247-181 in the House, the measure would have put the Defense Department on permanent footing through the remainder of this fiscal year but demanded an additional $12 billion in immediate cuts to keep the rest of the government open for a week. Republicans, trumpeting patriotic themes, called on the president to relent, but Obama insisted that he would veto any such short-term answer, absent at least a tentative deal on the budget.
House Democrats showed surprising unity: All but 15 opposed the bill. And Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a Vietnam veteran, angrily said the whole prospect of a shutdown now is "embarrassing for the United States Congress and embarrassing for the United States of America."
"In all the years I have been here, I have never seen anarchy and the tea party driving the speaker and the responsible people," Kerry said in reference to Boehner. "They ought to stand up and be responsible."
The speaker himself remained defiant but also sought to calm the waters around him.
"We are going to have real spending cuts," Boehner told reporters. "I don't know what some people don't understand about this, but this is the first time we have all been in this environment, the first time we have had a Republican majority dealing with this president, the first time we have had a Republican majority dealing with this Senate."
"It has taken us some time to get acquainted with each other and to work our way through this because (we) understand that this process that we are in, is likely to be repeated a number of times this year. I think everyone is taking their time, trying to get this right."
Indeed, Thursday night's White House meeting was the third in the space of a full day for Obama, Boehner and Reid, the principals in the talks. And after an early afternoon session in the Oval Office, White House Budget Director Jack Lew was allowed to rejoin ongoing talks in the Capitol where he met with senior staffers for Boehner and Reid as well as the House Appropriations Committee.
The activity followed the exchange of two major offers: the first from the speaker shortly before a White House meeting Wednesday night, followed by a counterproposal prepared by Lew and Senate Democrats and delivered back to the House near 3 a.m. Thursday.
Neither side would publicly comment on the details, but information collected by POLITICO suggests the dollar differences have narrowed substantially.
The Boehner plan proposes a $1.049 trillion cap for nonemergency discretionary appropriations for 2011, about $79 billion less than Obama initially requested in his budget and $39 billion less than the spending rate at the beginning of this year.
Within these totals, the GOP is asking for higher defense spending than previously agreed to and $2 billion more the administration wants, thereby putting more pressure on domestic agencies to make cuts in their accounts. But there has been substantial movement toward Obama on the question of accepting more savings from mandatory spending programs vs. discretionary appropriations.
In fact, a breakdown of the counteroffer from the White House and Democrats shows relatively little difference there. Instead of $39 billion in cuts, the counterproposal calls for cuts of $34.5 billion, or a ceiling of about $1.0535 trillion. In the case of domestic spending, the two sides are still about $6.5 billion apart, and Republicans argue that this remains a serious stumbling block. But measured against the size of the government and the consequences of a shutdown, Democrats respond that the differences are small.
New ideas for savings appear to have surfaced. The Republican proposal counts $1.3 billion in savings by cutting the pay of federal employees, possibly by denying customary bonuses and step increases. And after further talks Thursday afternoon, Democrats said the policy riders now dominate the remaining agenda.
"What they are trying to do is boot strap," said Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.). "They know their riders can't pass the Senate, so they say they have to be included in the budget. And the budget is a fragile work in progress to begin with. You put the riders on, it is the straw on the camel's back."
"We still think we can reach an agreement on money, but he is under enormous pressure," said Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) of Boehner's dilemma. "He says it's not from the tea party. It's from the old Republican guard that wants to show once and for all that they can force through some of these issues like abortion."
Boehner's allies have suggested as much, and while much of the focus has been on the freshmen, older social conservative members have already been a greater liability for the speaker.
By holding out — even at the risk of a shutdown — he may hope to give himself more leverage to go back to this bloc and show he has stood up for its concerns. The risk for Boehner is that he may have raised expectations among social conservatives to the point that a deal in which they don't get what they expect is too great a letdown for them.
"He's really negotiating with himself on when he goes back and faces the music," a House Democratic aide said.
Jack Lew
Government Shutdown 2019


Olivia's Heritage has been hard at work creating new products, working new events, offering skin care services and launching a new website. As part of "Olivia's Heritage" initiative to reach out to the people we connect with, we thought we'd share more about our founder … Nancy Welsh.
1.) Tell us about yourself , where did you grow up? Music? Family?
"I am lucky number 7! I am the last born of 7 children. I grew up in Rowland Heights,CA. I'm first generation born in U.S. from an immigrant family that migrated from El Salvador. I have a wide range of music everything from "Willie Colon" to "Tupac." And my newfound musical Crush would be "El Santa De Cecilia." I have three beautiful children 20 year old son, 14 year old daughter and 8 year old son all my children are extremely different. My husband, Tom Welsh, is truly my better half and keeps me balanced."
"I come from a long line of female entrepreneurs. My great-grandmother, my grandmother, my mother & now myself. This is legacy I wish to leave my daughter."
"My motivation for starting "Olivia's Heritage" has been my children. Especially, my daughter Giselle that is allergic to most cosmetics on the market. We have never been able to shop freely at any store or makeup counter without scrutinizing the ingredients. Giselle is highly allergic to most preservatives and fragrances found in commercially made products."
"Working farmers market and pop-up shops allows us the opportunity to really get to know & connect with our customers. We strive to bring quality cosmetics to people in more places at affordable price."
"Olivia is my great-grandmother. Olivia became a widow at 33 years old and had three daughters. She had a limited education, but a very strong work ethic and the ability to innovate like no other. Olivia started her business by hand crafting cheese, mustard, mayonnaise and even chocolate. She had successfully paid for private school and college for her three daughters and even paid for the schooling of her grandchildren. Olivia was able to produce two plastic surgeons, a social worker, and an attorney from her small little business. The legacy that my great-grandmother left behind has been of hard work and innovation. All my family has inherited her entrepreneurial spirit and the ability to innovate. Thus the reason I named by skin care company "Olivia's Heritage."
"My biggest driver is sharing our knowledge of the clean beauty industry and sharing information about the ingredients used in commercially made products. We really believe that clean natural organic living is a necessity not a luxury."
"To provide clean natural and organic skin care at affordable price."
"People that are looking to live a healthy clean lifestyle. People that are conscious of the toxins in commercially made products and are looking for quality organic alternatives."
"That are soaps are palm oil free. We only use fair trade environmentally safe raw ingredients. We try to avoid plastic as much as possible and use eco-friendly and minimal waste packaging."
"The biggest sign that we see is that customers are truly paying attention to the ingredients and seeking out natural organic products."
"We attending farmers markets and pop-up shops are a priority for us. This is the best way to get our product out to to the masses at a affordable price. You will find "Olivia's Heritage" pop-up shops from Downey all the way to Sherman Oaks."
"I call myself a three-step kind of girl. If I can't do it in the shower I most likely won't do it. That is why I love our tea tree lavender soap. It is great at removing dirt and bacteria from skin. I wash my face with the soap in the shower every morning then step out and spritz my face with a toner. My favorite is "Vitamin C Toner" and then I lather on the "Shelter Moisturizer" with zinc oxide that blocks the sun it serves as two purposes to moisturize my skin and to shelter me from the Sun."
13.) Tell us about your products … What makes them unique?
"We use organic plant-based ingredients to nurture and heal the skin. We focus not only on healthy skin care but on minimal waste and eco-friendly packaging. We really believe that going back to basics is healthier and better for us and the planet. Convenience and quick is not always healthier or better we need to take the time and make the effort to do things right."
"I would tell them to start a business that they're passionate about because being self-employed is hard work; almost overwhelming. So when that moment comes that you feel like you want to give up, your passion & mission will keep you going."


It is quite common for newborn babies on day 3 – 4, to develop jaundice. This is a condition, where you will notice that your baby's skin and the white of the eye, look yellow. Do not panic! Mostly, it is of no concern, but you may choose to have your baby seen, to set your mind at ease and to tell you what to do. In most cases, just by feeding more often, to increase the baby having dirty nappies, and by placing him in the sun (cloths off), is sufficient with the treatment for baby jaundice.
In some situations, the baby might seem very jaundiced and very sleepy. This might be then be necessary for a blood-test, as one tests the bilirubin in the baby's blood. This test is usually preformed with a heel-prick. I could come to you and during the visit do the test. Alternatively, to cut costs, you might go to Pathcare in town and depending on the results of the test, I will then come to you, to set up and start the phototherapy.
Phototherapy is where the baby is placed naked under special phototherapy lights. Because of the intensity of the light and the new delicate eyes of a newborn baby, the eyes will be covered every time he needs to be placed back.


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Top Tech Jobs 2015 – Support
by Gordon Hunt
Silicon Republic is looking to the future, establishing which jobs will be most in demand in Ireland in 2015. In the fifth part of this series, we look at the world of support, from sales and office management, to HR and team leads.
Often overlooked when surveying the world of IT, the area of support is crucial to the tech world. Given the make-up of Ireland's IT industry, this is true even more so. The plethora of software multinationals based in Dublin sees employment numbers of significant sizes, which invariably requires management, recruitment and constant handling.
And beyond this cluster, support services are required in every single tech business in the country.
The first area with regards to support, given the growing jobs announcements throughout the industry over the past 18 months, is human resources (HR). For every jobs announcement, be it five consultants at a marine energy company in Cork or 300 software positions at e-commerce giant Amazon, HR is involved.
Good HR operations are key
Silicon Republic's Featured Employers hiring in the area of support include:
Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Fenergo
Information Mosaic
Pramerica
When we then consider the current environment in Ireland, where employers are all fishing from a dwindling pool of employee reserves, then good HR operations are even more key.
Hays Ireland reports that the last year in particular has seen a significant increase in the HR market, with financial services companies helping to drive this. When you look at some of the jobs announcements in recent months, this becomes all the more clear – for example, 200 jobs at Fidelity Investments, or 600 at Citi.
"We are seeing private-sector companies taking a more strategic approach to their growth, along with an increase in business partnering roles," says Hays in its Salary and Recruiting Trends 2015. "HR is developing and implementing people solutions, aligned to the boardroom strategy."
Roles in this area include HR administrators (with an annual salary of €26,000), officers (€32,000), generalists (€40,000), business partners (€60,000), managers (€65,000) and directors (€90,000).
Admin roles in abundance
Elsewhere, office support – roles for receptionists (€25,000), customer care executives (€26,000), administrators (€30,000), team leaders (€33,000), office managers (€35,000) and PAs (€35,000) – has seen a similar bounce back, following a pretty tough time post-recession.
Indeed this area of employment is now in such good strength that Hays sees growth in specialist areas, "driven mostly by multinational pharmaceutical, IT and engineering companies."
Non-core areas are growing their headcount in support areas, with the desire of companies in Ireland for professionals who have more than one year of experience.
"We have seen a large number of recent permanent placements within PA, general administration and reception for candidates who gained six months to two years' experience abroad, and are now starting careers in Ireland. Typically, having international experience also means they will be offered a higher salary than those without," says Hays.
The hard sell
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Top Tech Jobs 2015 – Software engineering and development
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Then there's sales, the financial driver for the vast majority of operators in the tech industry. Salespeople, account managers and business development managers operate in an excessively fluid marketplace, with movement between companies the norm and variable salaries a consistent reality.
Last summer's report from Lero, the Irish software engineering research centre, highlighted sales and marketing in particular as key barriers to growth in Ireland. It reported that, for both large multinationals and smaller indigenous software companies, a labour shortage in this field was fairly restrictive.
The ability to move from business to business without needing to imbed yourself with detailed technological thought processes means the labour market is skilled almost apart from the business within which it operates. Add to this the fact that salespeople don't just move from business to business, but also from industry to industry, and you gain a clearer picture of the constant battleground tech companies must engage in to get the right staff. Not just competing with rivals, but competing with entirely different industries, too.
The whole area of multilingualism opens up significant avenues here, too. The home of many an EMEA, IT companies in Ireland sell their products and services all over the world. Native linguists from non-English backgrounds, in this regard, can either command better salaries, or qualify for specialist roles with their own defined career plans.
"Given the importance of foreign markets for Irish software companies, there is a need for expertise related to these overseas markets," said Lero's report. "This reflects the need for complementary skills among the management team of companies, rather than being overly focused on strong technical skills."
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Related: technical support, top tech jobs 2015, customer care, Hays, team leads, marketing, recruitment, Know-How, office managers
Gordon joined Silicon Republic in October 2014 as a journalist, moving on to a new position as senior communications and content executive at NDRC in August 2017. Unafraid of heights or spiders, Gordon spends most of his time avoiding conversations about music, appreciating even the least creative pun and rueing the day he panicked when meeting Paul McGrath. His favourite thing on the internet remains the 'Random Article' link on Wikipedia.
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