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Book Talk: The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: A Commentary, Wednesday April 17th at noon
By: June Casey - March 27th, 2019
Filed under: Announcements, Book Talks, Events, Faculty Channel, New Books and Journals, Scholarly Communication, Student Channel
The Harvard Law School Library staff invite you to attend a book talk and discussion in celebration of the recent publication of The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: A Commentary edited by Ilias Bantekas, Michael Ashley Stein & Dimitris Anastasiou (Oxford Univ. Press, Oct. 2018).
Professor Ilias Bantekas and Professor Michael Ashley Stein will be joined in discussion by:
Jacqueline Bhabha, Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Lecturer in Law, Harvard Law School; and Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School;
Professor Gerald L. Neuman, J. Sinclair Armstrong Professor of International, Foreign, and Comparative Law at Harvard Law School;
Professor Ruth Okediji, Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and Co-Director of the Berkman Klein Center.
The discussion will be moderated by Professor William P. Alford, Vice Dean for the Graduate Program and International Legal Studies, Jerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor of Law, Director, East Asian Legal Studies Program, and Chair, Harvard Law School Project on Disability.
This talk is co-sponsored by the Human Rights Program and the Harvard Law School Project on Disability.
Wednesday, April 17, 2019, at noon
Harvard Law School Milstein East A (Directions)
1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA
No RSVP required
About The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: A Commentary
"This treatise is a detailed article-by-article examination of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Each article of the CRPD contains a methodical analysis of the preparatory works, followed by an exhaustive examination of the contents of each article based on case law and concluding observations from the CRPD Committee, judgments from national and international courts and tribunals, pertinent UN and other reports, and literature on the topic in question.
Although primarily addressed to lawyers, the volume features commentary from a broad range of scholars across a variety of disciplines in order to provide a comprehensive study of the legal, psychological, education, sociological, and other aspects of the CPRD. This encyclopaedic commentary on the CRPD effectively covers all the issues arising from international disability law and practice." — Oxford University Press
Ilias Bantekas is Professor of International Law and Arbitration, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, and a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS) of the University of London. He acts as consultant to various inter-governmental organizations, such as UNDP, UN special procedures, the Council of Europe, and the EU. He also advises state entities, law firms, and NGOs in most fields of international law, human rights, international development law, and arbitration and is regularly appointed as arbitrator in international disputes. Key books include International Human Rights Law and Practice (2nd ed, CUP 2016), International Law Concentrate (OUP, 3rd ed, 2017), Sovereign Debt and Human Rights (OUP 2018), and The International Criminal Court and Africa (OUP 2017).
Michael Ashley Stein holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a Ph.D. from Cambridge University. Co-founder and Executive Director of the Harvard Law School Project on Disability and a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School for over a decade, Stein holds an Extraordinary Professorship at the University of Pretoria's Centre for Human Rights, and a visiting professorship at the Free University of Amsterdam. Stein previously was Professor (and Cabell Professor) at William & Mary Law School, and also taught at New York University and Stanford law schools. An internationally recognized expert on disability law and policy, Stein participated in the drafting of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, works with disabled peoples' organizations around the world, actively consults with governments on their disability laws and policies, advises a number of UN bodies and national human rights institutions, and has brought landmark litigation.
Book Talk: Cass Sunstein's How Change Happens, Wednesday, April 10 at noon
The Harvard Law School Library staff invite you to attend a book talk and discussion in celebration of the recent publication of How Change Happens by Cass R. Sunstein (MIT Press, April 9, 2019). Professor Sunstein is the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard University.
Harvard Law School WCC Milstein West A/B (Directions)
No RSVP required, light lunch will be served
About How Change Happens
"How does social change happen? When do social movements take off? Sexual harassment was once something that women had to endure; now a movement has risen up against it. White nationalist sentiments, on the other hand, were largely kept out of mainstream discourse; now there is no shortage of media outlets for them. In this book, with the help of behavioral economics, psychology, and other fields, Cass Sunstein casts a bright new light on how change happens.
Sunstein focuses on the crucial role of social norms—and on their frequent collapse. When norms lead people to silence themselves, even an unpopular status quo can persist. Then one day, someone challenges the norm—a child who exclaims that the emperor has no clothes; a woman who says "me too." Sometimes suppressed outrage is unleashed, and long-standing practices fall.
Sometimes change is more gradual, as "nudges" help produce new and different decisions—apps that count calories; texted reminders of deadlines; automatic enrollment in green energy or pension plans. Sunstein explores what kinds of nudges are effective and shows why nudges sometimes give way to bans and mandates. Finally, he considers social divisions, social cascades, and "partyism," when identification with a political party creates a strong bias against all members of an opposing party—which can both fuel and block social change." — MIT Press
About Cass Sunstein
Cass R. Sunstein, Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard Law School, was Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Obama administration. He was the recipient of the 2018 Holberg Prize, one of the largest annual international research prizes awarded to scholars who have made outstanding contributions to research in the arts and humanities, social science, law, or theology. He is the author of The Cost-Benefit Revolution (MIT Press), Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness (with Richard H. Thaler), and other books.
More About How Change Happens
"It's often said that the only constancy in life is change. Cass Sunstein weaves threads from diverse traditions in behavioral science to explain how big shifts get started." — Angela Duckworth, Founder and CEO of Character Lab and Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania; author of Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
"If you think you'd like to change something—another person, an organization, or even your society—then try this test: Pick up this book and read five pages. If you don't have your eyes opened with a fresh insight or useful tool, well, you're probably not serious enough about making change." — Chip Heath, Professor, Stanford Graduate School of Business; coauthor of Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard
"For those lamenting the status quo, and questioning whether change is possible, Cass Sunstein provides a ray of hope. Integrating insights from his own, and others', research on topics such as social norms, group polarization, and pluralistic ignorance with his intimate knowledge of law and public policy, Sunstein provides a road map of how change can and does happen. Characteristically wise and erudite, How Change Happens is a must-read for those who want to understand, and help to instigate, social change." — George Loewenstein, Herbert A. Simon University Professor of Economics and Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University
"Many prominent scholars write about why desirable changes occur in some contexts but not others. None brings to the challenge the breadth of Cass Sunstein, or his depth of insight into the complexities involved. How Change Happens provides a breathtaking tour of the vast intellectual landscape on the subject, bringing into focus critical elements of the topography and interactions among its features. Academics and the wider public alike will benefit from Sunstein's profound ideas, lucid exposition, and engaging writing." — Timur Kuran, Professor of Economics and Political Science, Gorter Family Professor of Islamic Studies, Duke University
"Cass Sunstein's new book is a tour de force exploring one of the most urgent problems of our time: how and why seemingly stable societal norms collapse and long-standing institutions come apart. Containing a feast of ideas on policy intervention, the book is bound to open up new avenues of research, and deserves to be read by students of economics, law, and politics." — Kaushik Basu, Professor of Economics and Carl Marks Professor of International Studies, Cornell University
Book Talk: Lawrence Lessig's America, Compromised, Wednesday, March 27 at noon
The Harvard Law School Library staff invite you to attend a book talk and discussion in celebration of the recent publication of America, Compromised by Lawrence Lessig (Univ. Chi. Press, Nov. 2018). Professor Lessig is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School.
Wednesday, March 27, 2019, at noon
About America, Compromised
"There is not a single American awake to the world who is comfortable with the way things are."
So begins Lawrence Lessig's sweeping indictment of contemporary American institutions and the corruption that besets them. We can all see it—from the selling of Congress to special interests to the corporate capture of the academy. Something is wrong. It's getting worse.
And it's our fault. What Lessig shows, brilliantly and persuasively, is that we can't blame the problems of contemporary American life on bad people, as our discourse all too often tends to do. Rather, he explains, "We have allowed core institutions of America's economic, social, and political life to become corrupted. Not by evil souls, but by good souls. Not through crime, but through compromise." Every one of us, every day, making the modest compromises that seem necessary to keep moving along, is contributing to the rot at the core of American civic life. Through case studies of Congress, finance, the academy, the media, and the law, Lessig shows how institutions are drawn away from higher purposes and toward money, power, quick rewards—the first steps to corruption.
Lessig knows that a charge so broad should not be levied lightly, and that our instinct will be to resist it. So he brings copious, damning detail gleaned from years of research, building a case that is all but incontrovertible: America is on the wrong path. If we don't acknowledge our own part in that, and act now to change it, we will hand our children a less perfect union than we were given. It will be a long struggle. This book represents the first steps. — University of Chicago Press
About Lawrence Lessig
Lawrence Lessig is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School. Prior to rejoining the Harvard faculty, Lessig was a professor at Stanford Law School, where he founded the school's Center for Internet and Society, and at the University of Chicago. He clerked for Judge Richard Posner on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Antonin Scalia on the United States Supreme Court. Lessig serves on the Board of the AXA Research Fund, and on the advisory boards of Creative Commons and the Sunlight Foundation. He is a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Association, and has received numerous awards, including the Free Software Foundation's Freedom Award, Fastcase 50 Award and being named one of Scientific American's Top 50 Visionaries. Lessig holds a BA in economics and a BS in management from the University of Pennsylvania, an MA in philosophy from Cambridge, and a JD from Yale.
More About America, Compromised
"America, Compromised is about the country in the Trump era, but not about Trump. Indeed, Lessig would have written much the same book if Hillary Clinton were president and if Democrats had control of both houses of Congress. His focus is not on bad people doing bad things, but on how incentives across a range of institutions have created corruption, with deleterious consequences for the nation. . . . America, Compromised join[s] an impressive array of books and essays that may, someday, have a future intellectual historian using them as examples to lament the fact that his or her contemporaries are not as eloquent or important as the group that arose in the Trump era to combat the threats to our way of life." — Norm Ornstein — New York Times Book Review
"Lessig lays out a working definition and theory of corruption that is at once simple and comprehensive, a devastating argument that America is racing for the cliff's edge of structural, possibly irreversible tyranny." — Cory Doctorow
HLS faculty and students: join us for Notes and Comments!
By: Michelle Pearse - March 12th, 2019
Filed under: Announcements, Events, Faculty Channel, Scholarly Communication, Student Channel
On Wednesday, April 10, from 2:30-5pm, the normally quiet* tables of the HLS Library Reading Room will become collaboration zones for student-faculty interaction on scholarly topics during Notes & Comment: Connecting Students and Faculty on Scholarship. Faculty will be available to meet with students seeking guidance on their research and writing for publication — including student Notes in HLS journals, writing competitions, and other extra-curricular publishing opportunities.
Faculty members will be available to advise you on the scholarship process and discuss your ideas and outlines during one-on-one and small group meetings in the Library Reading Room with a food and drinks networking reception. The reception begins at 2:30 and the advising at 3pm. You will also be able to sign up to meet with a librarian for a research consultation.
Please let us know you're coming at http://bit.ly/ncspr19 so that the event coordinators can plan appropriate student-faculty partnerships in advance. We will schedule partnerships based on signup time, so it is to your advantage to sign up early. Advance registration will be available through April 2nd.
Writing Tools by Pete O'Shea on Flickr, CC BY 2.0
Book Talk: Sovereignty and the New Executive Authority, Wednesday, March 13th at noon
By: June Casey - February 20th, 2019
Filed under: Book Talks, Events, Faculty Channel, New Books and Journals, Scholarly Communication, Student Channel
The Harvard Law School Library staff invite you to attend a book talk and discussion in celebration of the recent publication of Sovereignty and the New Executive Authority edited by Claire Finkelstein and Michael Skerker (Oxford Univ. Press, 2018). Professor Finkelstein will be joined in conversation with Professor Charles Fried and Professor Adrian Vermeule.
This book talk is co-sponsored by the Harvard Law School Students for the Rule of Law.
Harvard Law School Milstein West A/B (Directions)
About Sovereignty and the New Executive Authority
"This volume explores moral and legal issues relating to sovereignty by addressing foundational questions about its nature, examining state sovereignty between states, and dealing with post 9/11 developments in the U.S., potentially destabilizing received views of democratic sovereignty. With essays addressing foundational, state and international sovereignty, the book focuses on Post 9/11 developments including the profusion of secret national security programs, including those pertaining to the interrogation, rendition, and detention of terror suspects; signal intercepts and meta-data analysis; and targeted killing of irregular militants; prompting questions regarding the legitimacy of executive power in this arena." — Oxford University Press
Professor Claire Finkelstein is the Algernon Biddle Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy; Director at the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School. She has published extensively in the areas of criminal law theory, moral and political philosophy as applied to legal questions, jurisprudence, and rational choice theory. One of her distinctive contributions is bringing philosophical rational choice theory to bear on legal theory. She has focused in recent years on the implications of Hobbes' political theory for substantive legal questions. She is the series editor, with Jens Ohlin, of the Oxford Series in Ethics, National Security and the Rule of Law. Within that series, she has co-edited three volumes to date: Targeted Killings: Law & Mortality in an Asymmetrical World (2012), Cyberwar: Law and Ethics for Virtual Conflicts; and Weighing Lives in War (2017). She is also the editor of Hobbes on Law (2005). She is the Faculty Director of the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law at the University of Pennsylvania.
Professor Charles Fried will join Professor Finkelstein in discussion of Sovereignty and the New Executive Authority. Professor Fried is the Beneficial Professor of Law and has been teaching at Harvard Law School since 1961. He was Solicitor General of the United States, 1985-89, and an Associate Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, 1995-99. He contributed a chapter to Sovereignty and the New Executive Authority titled Defining and Constraining the Sovereign.
Adrian Vermeule is the Ralph S. Tyler, Jr. Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School. Before coming to the Law School, he was the Bernard D. Meltzer Professor of Law at the University of Chicago. The author or co-author of nine books, most recently Law's Abnegation: From Law's Empire to the Administrative State (2016), The Constitution of Risk (2014) and The System of the Constitution (2012). He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012.
Book Talk: Cass Sunstein's On Freedom, Wednesday, February 27 at noon
By: June Casey - February 6th, 2019
The Harvard Law School Library staff invite you to attend a book talk and discussion in celebration of the recent publication of On Freedom by Cass R. Sunstein (Princeton Univ. Press, February 2019). Professor Sunstein is the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard University.
Wednesday, February 27, 2019, at noon
About On Freedom
"In this pathbreaking book, New York Times bestselling author Cass Sunstein asks us to rethink freedom. He shows that freedom of choice isn't nearly enough. To be free, we must also be able to navigate life. People often need something like a GPS device to help them get where they want to go—whether the issue involves health, money, jobs, children, or relationships.
In both rich and poor countries, citizens often have no idea how to get to their desired destination. That is why they are unfree. People also face serious problems of self-control, as many of them make decisions today that can make their lives worse tomorrow. And in some cases, we would be just as happy with other choices, whether a different partner, career, or place to live—which raises the difficult question of which outcome best promotes our well-being.
Accessible and lively, and drawing on perspectives from the humanities, religion, and the arts, as well as social science and the law, On Freedom explores a crucial dimension of the human condition that philosophers and economists have long missed—and shows what it would take to make freedom real." — Princeton University Press
More About On Freedom
"Real freedom is the freedom to reach your goal, not to get lost at every turn. In this powerful book, Cass Sunstein shows when policy can help us navigate to where we want to go, where policy might overstep by choosing the end point for us, and how to tell the two apart. A delightful masterpiece." — Esther Duflo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"On Freedom is an elegant, clear, deceptively simple book about a fiendishly complex problem. How can free societies help citizens to navigate among a perplexing multitude of forking paths, only some of which lead toward desirable ends? How is a nudge in the right direction distinct from coercion? What is the best way to enable people to choose paths that enhance life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness? Drawing on a wealth of probing examples from social policy, literature, and his own experience, Sunstein brilliantly illuminates the challenges that face governments and individuals and sketches plausible ways forward." — Stephen Greenblatt, author of The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
"In this eloquent and timely book, Cass Sunstein asks urgent questions relevant to the crisis of democracy in which we find ourselves. As the author has demonstrated in the past, he is a thoughtful navigator of territory we may have prematurely believed we understood." — Joyce Carol Oates
"An important and engaging book on freedom and choice by a top scholar. Sunstein gives us a comprehensive and cutting-edge treatment of his enormously influential work on nudging and well-being." — L. A. Paul, author of Transformative Experience
"By redefining freedom, this becomes a book about the meaning of life." — Robert J. Shiller, Nobel Prize–winning economist
Book Talk: Will China Save the Planet?, Wednesday, February 20th at noon
By: June Casey - January 29th, 2019
The Harvard Law School Library staff invite you to attend a book talk and discussion in celebration of the recent publication of Barbara Finamore's Will China Save the Planet? (Polity, Nov., 2018). Barbara Finamore is a Senior Attorney and Asia Senior Strategic Director at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). She has over three decades of experience in environmental law and energy policy, with a focus on China for twenty-five years. In 1996, she founded NRDC's China Program, the first clean energy program to be launched by an international NGO.
This book talk is co-sponsored by the Harvard Law School Library, East Asian Legal Studies, the HLS Environmental Law Society, and the Harvard-China Project.
Harvard Law School WCC Milstein West B
1557 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA (Directions)
About Will China Save the Planet?
"Now that Trump has turned the United States into a global climate outcast, will China take the lead in saving our planet from environmental catastrophe? Many signs point to yes. China, the world's largest carbon emitter, is leading a global clean energy revolution, phasing out coal consumption and leading the development of a global system of green finance.
But as leading China environmental expert Barbara Finamore explains, it is anything but easy. The fundamental economic and political challenges that China faces in addressing its domestic environmental crisis threaten to derail its low-carbon energy transition. Yet there is reason for hope. China's leaders understand that transforming the world's second largest economy from one dependent on highly polluting heavy industry to one focused on clean energy, services and innovation is essential, not only to the future of the planet, but to China's own prosperity." — Polity
More About Will China Save the Planet?
"A hugely informative and readable book about how much China is doing – and needs to do – to spur the clean energy revolution that is a crucial element in the fight against climate change. I highly recommend it." — Todd Stern, Former Special Envoy for Climate Change under President Obama
"Finamore has written an impressively well-researched and truly fascinating account of China's fitful odyssey to climate consciousness. In an otherwise pretty bleak global tableau, this progress offers some welcome grounds for hope." — Orville Schell, Arthur Ross Director, Center on US-China Relations, Asia Society
"A must-read." — Make Wealth History
'Barbara Finamore has written a highly readable and informative overview of China's role in the global climate change battle. Will China Save the Planet? is a good primer for environmental policy analysts and anyone else interested in studying feasible solutions to climate change, humanity's greatest threat.' — Eurasia Review
Book Talk: Written in Stone: Public Monuments in Changing Societies, Wednesday, November 14 at noon
By: June Casey - November 7th, 2018
Filed under: Announcements, Book Talks, Events, Faculty Channel, Student Channel
The Harvard Law School Library staff invite you to attend a book talk and discussion in celebration of the recent publication of the Twentieth Anniversary Edition of Sanford Levinson's Written in Stone: Public Monuments in Changing Societies (Duke Univ. Press, Oct. 5, 2018). Sanford Levinson is the W. St. John Garwood and W. St. John Garwood, Jr., Centennial Chair in Law at the University of Texas Law School and Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Professor Levinson will be joined in discussion by Boston Globe Columnist Jeff Jacoby; Randall L. Kennedy, Michael R. Klein Professor of Law at Harvard Law School; and Bruce Mann, Carl F. Schipper, Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.
Wednesday, November 14, 2018, at noon
Harvard Law School WCC Milstein West B (Directions)
About Written in Stone: Public Monuments in Changing Societies
"From the removal of Confederate monuments in New Orleans in the spring of 2017 to the violent aftermath of the white nationalist march on the Robert E. Lee monument in Charlottesville later that summer, debates and conflicts over the memorialization of Confederate "heroes" have stormed to the forefront of popular American political and cultural discourse. In Written in Stone Sanford Levinson considers the tangled responses to controversial monuments and commemorations while examining how those with political power configure public spaces in ways that shape public memory and politics. Paying particular attention to the American South, though drawing examples as well from elsewhere in the United States and throughout the world, Levinson shows how the social and legal arguments regarding the display, construction, modification, and destruction of public monuments mark the seemingly endless confrontation over the symbolism attached to public space.
This twentieth anniversary edition of Written in Stone includes a new preface and an extensive afterword that takes account of recent events in cities, schools and universities, and public spaces throughout the United States and elsewhere. Twenty years on, Levinson's work is more timely and relevant than ever." — Duke University Press
More About Written in Stone: Public Monuments in Changing Societies
"Sanford Levinson has written a wonderfully wise and informed essay on the issue of how we commemorate the past when the past keeps on changing." — Nathan Glazer, author of, We Are All Multiculturalists Now
"Much has been written about the controversy over public presentations of history, but rarely has the question of how to memorialize our past received the thoughtful, incisive, and fair-minded analysis provided by Sanford Levinson." — Eric Foner, author of, The Story of American Freedom
Sanford Levinson, W. St. John Garwood and W. St. John Garwood, Jr., Centennial Chair in Law at the University of Texas Law School and Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School
Boston Globe Columnist Jeff Jacoby
Randall L. Kennedy, Michael R. Klein Professor of Law at Harvard Law School
Bruce Mann, Carl F. Schipper, Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.
Book Talk: Tough Cases: Judges Tell the Stories About Some of the Hardest Decisions They've Ever Made, Wednesday, October 17 at noon
By: June Casey - October 2nd, 2018
The Harvard Law School Library staff invite you to attend a book talk and discussion in celebration of the recent publication of Tough Cases: Judges Tell the Stories About Some of the Hardest Decisions They've Ever Made, edited by Russell Canan, Gregory Mize and Frederick Weisberg (The New Press, August 2018).
Russell Canan is currently a judge on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia and an adjunct professor at the George Washington University School of Law. Frederick Weisberg is currently a judge on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia and teaches annually in the Trial Advocacy Workshop at Harvard Law School. Gregory E. Mize is a currently a judge on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia and is a judicial fellow at the National Center for State Courts and an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center.
The book talk discussion will include: Judge David J. Barron, The Honorable S. William Green Visiting Professor of Public Law at Harvard Law School and Circuit Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit; Nikolas Bowie, Assistant Professor of Law at Harvard Law School; Andrew Manuel Crespo, Assistant Professor of Law at Harvard Law School; Charles Fried, Beneficial Professor of Law at Harvard Law School; Judge Nancy Gertner (Ret.), Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School; Martha Minow, 300th Anniversary University Professor at Harvard University; and Judge Frederick H. Weisberg, Associate Judge for the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.
Copies of Tough Cases will be available for sale courtesy of the Harvard Law School COOP.
Wednesday, October 17, 2018, at noon
About Tough Cases
"Prosecutors and defense attorneys have it easy—all they have to do is to present the evidence and make arguments. It's the judges who have the heavy lift: they are the ones who have to make the ultimate decisions, many of which have profound consequences on the lives of the people standing in front of them.
In Tough Cases, judges from different kinds of courts in different parts of the country write about the cases that proved most difficult for them to decide. Some of these cases received international attention: the Elián González case in which Judge Jennifer Bailey had to decide whether to return a seven-year-old boy to his father in Cuba after his mother drowned trying to bring the child to the United States, or the Terri Schiavo case in which Judge George Greer had to decide whether to withdraw life support from a woman in a vegetative state over the objections of her parents, or the Scooter Libby case about appropriate consequences for revealing the name of a CIA agent. Others are less well-known but equally fascinating: a judge on a Native American court trying to balance U.S. law with tribal law, a young Korean American former defense attorney struggling to adapt to her new responsibilities on the other side of the bench, and the difficult decisions faced by a judge tasked with assessing the mental health of a woman accused of killing her own children.
Relatively few judges have publicly shared the thought processes behind their decision making. Tough Cases makes for fascinating reading for everyone from armchair attorneys and fans of Law and Order to those actively involved in the legal profession who want insight into the people judging their work." — The New Press
Judge David J. Barron, The Honorable S. William Green Visiting Professor of Public Law at Harvard Law School and Circuit Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Nikolas Bowie, Assistant Professor of Law at Harvard Law School
Andrew Manuel Crespo, Assistant Professor of Law at Harvard Law School
Charles Fried, Beneficial Professor of Law at Harvard Law School
Judge Nancy Gertner (Ret.), Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School
Martha Minow, 300th Anniversary University Professor at Harvard University
Judge Frederick H. Weisberg, Associate Judge for the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.
Banned Books Week Events at HLS
By: Meg Kribble - September 20th, 2018
Filed under: Cool, Events, Faculty Channel, Student Channel
We're expanding our Banned Books Week activities this year, and we look forward to celebrating our freedom to read with you!
Most Challenged Books of 2017 Exhibit
Yes, books are still having their places in libraries and on school reading lists challenged every year. Visit the exhibit case between Langdell and Areeda Halls to see what the most challenged books of 2017 were. You might be surprised!
Banned Books & Censorship Exhibit
The issue of banning books ties into other forms of censorship. Visit our bulletin board by the library entrance for some questions and reports on recent anti-free press actions, current issues in free speech, the big censorship stories of 2017, and private actors and free speech. Plus learn about some of the many organizations fighting censorship that you can get involved with!
3rd Annual Read-Out
Bring your lunch and join us in reading aloud passages from some of our favorite banned books. Are you part of the HLS community and want to join the reading roster? Please email Meg Kribble and we'll addd you to the list!
A talk with James Tager, HLS '13, PEN America
WCC 1010
Co-sponsors: the HLS ACS and the Harvard Federalist Society
Last but not least, we're so excited to welcome James Tager, HLS '13, back to campus. James is Deputy Director, Free Expression Research and Policy at PEN America, and he'll speak about contemporary issues related to banning books.
No RSVP necessary; lunch is available first come, first served!
Do you have a favorite banned book? Share it with us in the comments!
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Q: How can I post request for SOAP service in android?
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Android, sending XML via HTTP POST (SOAP)

How can I post request for SOAP service in android?
Please give me some example
Thank you for sharing knowledge to me

A: Use the KSoap library, this is a codesnippet from my project:
SoapObject soapObject = new SoapObject(NAMESPACE_NIST_IMPORT,
                METHOD_NAME_NIST_IMPORT);

        ImportNistFileReq nistReq = new ImportNistFileReq(nistFile);

        PropertyInfo pi = new PropertyInfo();
        pi.setName("req");
        pi.setValue(nistReq);
        pi.setType(nistReq.getClass());
        soapObject.addProperty(pi);

        SoapSerializationEnvelope soapSerializationEnvelope = new SoapSerializationEnvelope(SoapEnvelope.VER11);

        new MarshalBase64().register(soapSerializationEnvelope);

        soapSerializationEnvelope.setOutputSoapObject(soapObject);

        soapSerializationEnvelope.addMapping(NAMESPACE_NIST_IMPORT, "ImportNistFileReq", new ImportNistFileReq().getClass());

        soapSerializationEnvelope.dotNet = true;
        Object objectResult = null;

        try {
            HttpTransportSE httpTransportSE = new HttpTransportSE(
                    URL_NIST_IMPORT);

            httpTransportSE.debug = true;
            httpTransportSE.call(SOAP_ACTION_NIST_IMPORT, soapSerializationEnvelope);

            String host = httpTransportSE.getPath();
            Log.i("HOST: ", host);

            objectResult = (Object) soapSerializationEnvelope.getResponse();

        } catch (IOException e) {
            Log.e("IO: ", e.getMessage());
        } catch (XmlPullParserException e) {
            Log.e("XML: ", e.getMessage());
        }

This piece of code sends a NIST File represented as a byte array encoded as Byte64 to a Webservice. Request like this one should be called in a separated thread like an AsyncTask..
The constants:

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*NAMEPSPACE_NIST_IMPORT

*METHOD_NAME_NIST_IMPORT

*URL_NIST_IMPORT

*SOAP_ACTION_NIST_IMPORT

Refers to the wsdl file provided by my .NET service. A great tutorial is this one. If something is unclear, just ask. Good luck.

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Easel TV and M2A Media to collaborate on OTT solutions
Monday, September 10, 2018 - 07:03
Joe Foster, CEO, Easel TV
Easel TV, the global provider of OTT video services and M2A Media, leading specialist in cloud video solutions, have announced a partnership to offer all-in-one packaged OTT services. The collaboration combines M2A's Live Capture and Live Streaming products with Easel TV's end-to-end OTT management suite and extensive set of OTT device apps.
M2A Media's Live Streaming solution provides live streaming and pseudo live (time-shifted) experiences, as well as its Live Capture service for immediate live event re-streaming (watch-from-start, watch-from-live).
Easel TV's suite of OTT management tools provide a full CMS (Content Management System) for scheduling, pricing, packaging and publishing of OTT content. Consumer registration and detailed analytics allow full tracking of all usage, reconciling wholesale billing, and all aspects of running the OTT service.
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UC Cooperative Extension is asking California farmers and landowners to help track the the state's wild pig population, reported Julia Mitric on Capitol Public Radio News. Signs of the pig's presence are hard to miss, UCCE advisor John Harper told the reporter.
"It looks like you came in with a rototiller and just uprooted everything," he says. "It's like ground squirrel mounds or gopher mounds on steroids because the pigs can go over such a large area."
California's wild pigs have a variety of origins. Harper says many are descended from domestic pigs who were released into the wild by humans or escaped on their own and bred with game hogs such as the Russian boar hog. Wild pigs root around in the soil for truffles and small plant roots with their sharp tusks tear, destroying plants and grasses that sheep and cattle like to graze on. They also open up the land for erosion and invasive species.
"So you might get something like 'medusahead,' an invasive grass that tends to crowd out other more desirable forage species," Harper said.
A team of UC Cooperative Extension scientists have created a GIS-based mobile app that works on Android and Apple devices to make it easy for landowners to participate in the study.
"Rangeland managers and farmers can enter data into the app from the field so that we can estimate the land area and economic impacts of feral pig damage over a longer time period," said Roger Baldwin, UC Cooperative Extension wildlife specialist in the Department of Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology at UC Davis.
Learn more and sign up to participate in the study on the UC Agriculture and Natural Resources news website.
Sheep shearing is like a dance. It requires strength, flexibility, a tender touch and the right moves. Once mastered, the skill can open the door to gratifying and high-paying seasonal work.
Shearers can earn $50 to $100 per hour, Harper said, and can start a business with a $3,000 investment in equipment.
"If they can learn how to shear sheep correctly, it's a great little business to get into," Harper said.
The need for skilled sheep shearers in California and other parts of the nation has prompted the UC Hopland Research and Extension Center to host an annual sheep shearing school, where a diversity of students are introduced to a trade that allows them to work with their hands, out-of-doors, when and where they want.
Although sheep shearing is traditionally a male occupation, Harper said he encourages women to take the course.
Beatrice Thomas, 41, is a typical student.
"I came to sheep shearing by way of dance and the arts," Thomas said.
But sheep shearing was a completely different experience.
"This doesn't hurt the same way as sitting at a desk, because it feels vital. Every move is important. There's a dance. There's a rhythm. My whole spirit lit up," Thomas said.
The 5,200-acre Hopland Research and Extension Center is home to a flock of about 1,000 sheep, which provide opportunities for scientists to study their role in land management. They also serve as a ready supply of animals for prospective new shearers to learn the craft.
The annual sheep shearing school at Hopland is the only intensive five-day course in the United States, said Hannah Bird, community educator at the research center.
"It brings people from all over the country and sometimes outside the country," she said.
The week together helps build camaraderies amongst the newly trained sheep shearers. Hopland sheep shearing alums have created a Facebook group to stay in touch and refer jobs to one another. Several previous students are making a living a sheep shearing. One is Stephanie Wilkes, a 2013 sheep shearing student who now runs her own sheep shearing business from San Francisco.
Lead instructor Gary Vorderbruggen said a key to sheep shearing success is a calm demeanor.
Joining Harper and Vorderbruggen instructing the class in 2016 was Trevor Hollenback. He was first exposed to sheep shearing when visiting a friend's sheep farm in Austria.
"I realized this is a really skilled craft. It's amazing," Hollenback said.
Hollenback quit his desk job and traveled to New Zealand for training, then returned to the Austrian farm for more practice. Back in the United States, Hollenback opened his own business and began shearing sheep in California and Arizona. He was tapped to be the instructor at Hopland because of his formal training in New Zealand.
The week-long sheep shearing school at Hopland will be held again in spring 2017. The class typically fills up within two hours of opening registration. Register interest on the UCCE Mendocino website to be notified when registration opens.
Sheep shearing is hard work, but has rewards.
Many sheep shearing students said the process was "the hardest thing they have ever done," reported Glenda Anderson in the Santa Rosa Press Democrat. The newspaper ran a lengthy feature and a photo gallery of the annual sheep shearing school held at the UC Hopland Research and Extension Center this week.
Reporter Justine Frederiksen of the Ukiah Daily Journal also reported on the sold-out sheep shearing and wool classing training at the 5,300-acre Mendocino County research center.
"One of the things new students have the most trouble with is what we call 'tipping' the sheep, or flipping them over," Harper said. He explained that, to get the sheep into the ideal starting position, you need to push its back legs down with one hand and tuck its head in with the other, twisting the animal into a sitting position with all four legs dangling.
UC Hopland REC sheep shearing students are part of a new wave of sheep shearers and wool enthusiasts industry officials hope will reverse decades of disinterest and decline. The shearing classes were booked well ahead of time, said Hannah Bird, a community educator at the research station. Many students are seeking a break from city life or jobs tying them to a desk.
Wrote reporter Glenda Anderson, shearing sheep is sweaty, back-straining work that earns just $2 to $5 per sheep. But an expert sheep shearer taking part in the program said sheep shearing for a living has its benefits.
"It's a lifestyle thing. I could work six months a year and travel around the world," paying for the travel by working here and there, he said.


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Freifrau Dorothea von Rodde-Schlözer (* 10. August 1770 in Göttingen; † 12. Juli 1825 in Avignon, Frankreich) war eine deutsche Philosophin und Salonnière. Sie zählt zu der als "Universitätsmamsellen" bekannten Gruppe Göttinger Gelehrtentöchter des 18. Jahrhunderts und promovierte 1787 als zweite Frau in Deutschland.

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Frau Doktor
Schlözer war die Tochter von August Ludwig von Schlözer, einem Göttinger Professor für Staatsrecht und Geschichte, und Caroline Friederike von Schlözer (geb. Roederer), einer Kunstmalerin und -stickerin. Sie erlernte mit vier Jahren schreiben und begann sich ein Jahr später mit Geometrie, Französisch und Latein zu beschäftigen. Als Sechzehnjährige beherrschte sie zehn Sprachen. Belletristik und Poesie waren vom Unterricht ausgeschlossen; nur die Aeneis durfte als historisches Werk gelesen werden. Der künstlerische Unterricht bestand in Zeichnen und Musik. "Mein Dortgen spielte schon 1778 öffentlich auf dem Klavier in einem Konzert; voriges Jahr sang sie öffentlich zu unserem Universitätskonzert", vermerkt der Vater stolz.

Ansichten und Erziehungsmethoden des Vaters fanden in der Göttinger Umgebung nur wenig Verständnis. Caroline Michaelis, auch eine der Professorentöchter, urteilte:

Caroline Michaelis urteilte in späteren Jahren weniger eng, doch ihre damalige Sicht entsprach sicher dem, was man sich in der Göttinger Academia über Vater Schlözers Ehrgeiz dachte.

1781/1782 durfte Dorothea ihren Vater auf einer Studienreise nach Rom begleiten. Dort machten sie unter anderem die Bekanntschaft von Wilhelm Heinse, dem Dichter des Ardinghello, der mit Vergnügen für die 11-jährige Dorothea den Cicerone machte. Davon schien dem Vater dann doch einiges bedenklich:

Zum 50. Jahrestag der Inauguration der Universität Göttingen, am 17. September 1787, wurde sie mit 17 Jahren rite (also mit der schlechtestmöglichen Note) zum Dr. phil. promoviert. Dieses Promotionsverfahren ging auf eine Initiative von Johann David Michaelis zurück. Es umfasste eine nichtöffentliche Prüfung in deutscher (nicht lateinischer) Sprache, ohne Vorlage einer Dissertation und ihre Verteidigung. Das Promotionsexamen erfolgte am 25. August im Michaelishaus, dem Haus des Dekans der philosophischen Fakultät, durch acht Professoren über 3½ Stunden und betraf die Gebiete der klassischen Literatur (Horaz), Bergbau, Baukunst und Mathematik. Dorothea von Schlözer wurde damit als zweite Frau nach Dorothea Christiane Erxleben in Deutschland promoviert. Schiller bezeichnete die Promotion in einem Brief an Körner als "Schlözers Farce mit seiner Tochter, die doch ganz erbärmlich ist".

Zusammen mit ihrem Vater verfasste sie ein Fachbuch zur Münz-, Geld- und Bergwerks-Geschichte des russischen Kaiserreichs im 18. Jahrhundert, das 1791 bei Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht in Göttingen herausgegeben wurde.

Lübeck

Dorothea Schlözer heiratete 1792 den Reichsfreiherrn (1803) und Bürgermeister (1806) Mattheus Rodde in Lübeck und bekam drei Kinder: Augusta (1794–1820), Dorothea (* 1796) und August Ludwig (1798–1821). Fortan unterschrieb sie mit Rodde-Schlözer und kann damit als Erfinderin des deutschen Doppelnamens gelten.

Nach der Geburt des ersten Kindes lernte sie 1794 in Göttingen Charles de Villers kennen, einen französischen Philosophen und Artillerieoffizier im Exil. Ab Juli 1797 wurde er zum ständigen Hausgast der Roddes, die Dreiecksbeziehung endete erst mit Villers Tod 1815. Während der Plünderungen Lübecks durch Napoleons Truppen im November 1806 gelang es Villers, Schlimmeres für das Haus und die Stadt zu verhindern. Diese Ereignisse beschreibt er ausführlich in seinem Brief an Fanny de Beauharnais, eine Napoleon nahestehende französische Salonnière. Der Brief wurde publiziert und die Plünderung Lübecks wurde dadurch in ganz Europa bekannt und erregte Anteilnahme.

Im März 1813 bestickten die Frauen der Familie Platzmann und Demoiselle Rodde die Fahnentücher der Hanseatischen Legion in Lübeck. Deren Inschriften waren "Gott mit uns" und "Deutschland oder Tod".

In Lübeck führte Dorothea Rodde-Schlözer einen aufgeklärten Salon, verkehrte aber auch mit den intellektuellen Kreisen in der benachbarten Residenzstadt Eutin, damals das "Weimar des Nordens". Zu den dortigen Freunden gehörten Johann Heinrich Voß, Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi und Friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg.

Paris

Im Jahr 1801 reiste Schlözer in Zusammenhang mit einer diplomatischen Mission ihres Mannes nach Paris. Villers und ihre Kinder begleiteten sie. In Paris besuchten sie Villers Schwester. Sie reisten zusammen mit dem Hamburger Schriftsteller Friedrich Johann Lorenz Meyer, der über seinen Aufenthalt einen Bericht verfasste. Vor allem aber suchte sie Kontakt zu den französischen Gelehrten und Wissenschaftlern, die sie ehrten, indem sie Schlözer an einer Sitzung der Ersten Klasse des Nationalinstituts teilnehmen ließen, wo sie auf dem Sitz des Ersten Konsuls Napoleon Bonaparte Platz nehmen durfte, den sie im Juli schon bei einer Theateraufführung gesehen hatten. Sie machte damals die Bekanntschaft u. a. des Naturforschers Lacépède, des Geologen Dolomieu und des Philologen Fauriel. Außerdem besuchte sie Galerien, lernte die Maler Jacques-Louis David und Jean-Baptiste Isabey kennen und wurde selbst zum Gegenstand künstlerischen Schaffens: Anicet Charles Gabriel Lemonnier fertigte ein Porträt und Jean-Antoine Houdon schuf eine Büste.

Ein zweites Mal wurde Rodde auf Diplomatenmission geschickt und wieder fuhren auch Schlözer und Villers mit nach Paris, diesmal von 1803 bis 1805. Diesmal wurde Dorothea dem Kaiserpaar vorgestellt, wobei die Kaiserin Joséphine sich besonders für "Le Docteur" Rodde interessierte, da sie im Salon ihrer Tante, der Dichterin Fanny de Beauharnais, verkehrte. Auch besuchte sie das Ehepaar Friedrich und Dorothea Schlegel (geborene Brendel Mendelssohn), das sich von 1802 bis 1804 in Paris aufhielt. Auf dem Heimweg im Juli 1805 machten Dorothea und Villers in Göttingen Station, wo der 70. Geburtstag von Dorotheas Vater zu feiern war.

Bankrott des Ehemannes und Rückkehr nach Göttingen
Im September 1809 starb Schlözers Vater und zur Regelung der Erbschaft reiste Schlözer im Frühjahr 1810 für längere Zeit nach Göttingen. Im September erreichte sie dort aus Lübeck die Nachricht vom Bankrott ihres Mannes, der über die umfangreichen von ihm betriebenen Kreditgeschäfte die Übersicht verloren hatte. Die Schulden betrugen am Ende ungeheure 2,7 Millionen Mark Courant. Für Schlözer bestand nun die Gefahr, dass auch sie selbst alles verlieren würde, das Erbe ihres Vaters eingeschlossen, da man nach dem lübeckischen Gewohnheitsrecht die Ehefrau in vollem Umfang für die Schulden ihres Mannes in Anspruch nehmen konnte. Mit Hilfe von Villers wandte sie ein Verfahren ab. In der Folge übersiedelte die Familie Rodde nach Göttingen, wo Schlözer ein Haus in der Langen Geismarstraße Nr. 49 kaufte. An diesem Haus sind heute Gedenktafeln für sie und für Villers angebracht.

Ihre letzten Jahre waren von Siechtum und Todesfällen überschattet: Nach dem Bankrott alterte ihr Mann schnell, ertaubte, wurde kindisch und zum Pflegefall, der seine Umgebung erheblich belastete: "Daß aber diejenigen, die mit ihm an eine Galeere geschmiedet sind, nicht halb verrückt werden, ist mir unerklärlich", urteilte Karl Sieveking damals. 1815 starb Villers, am 13. Oktober 1820 erlag Dorotheas älteste Tochter Augusta der Schwindsucht, am 29. April 1821 starb der einzige Sohn August Ludwig, ebenfalls an der Schwindsucht. Dann erkrankte auch noch die jüngste Tochter Dorothea, genannt Dortchen. Zur Kur wurde eine Reise in den Süden empfohlen, man fuhr nach Marseille, das man im Dezember empfindlich kalt fand. Am 12. Juni verließ man Marseille. Dorothea war zu diesem Zeitpunkt bereits krank. In Avignon war dann eine Weiterreise mit der Kranken nicht möglich. Am 12. Juli 1825 starb Dorothea Freifrau von Rodde an einer Lungenentzündung. Sie wurde auf dem Friedhof Saint-Véran in Avignon beigesetzt, wo ihr Grab heute noch existiert. Ihr Ehemann überlebte sie um fünf Monate.

Würdigung
1882 gründete Emmy Türk, Frau des Stadtphysicusses Carl Türk und Vorsitzende des Lübecker Zweigvereines des Vaterländischen Frauenvereins des Roten Kreuzes, die Frauen-Gewerbeschule und leitete diese bis 1894. Die noch heute existierende Schule wurde 1970 nach Dorothea Schlözer benannt.

Die Georg-August-Universität Göttingen fördert seit 2009 Wissenschaftlerinnen im Rahmen des Dorothea Schlözer-Programms und ehrt seit 1958 mit der Dorothea Schlözer-Medaille Frauen, die sich für Wissenschaft und Frauenbildung engagieren. Am 6. Mai 2011 wurde vom Landesfrauenrat Niedersachsen in Göttingen der frauenORT Dorothea Schlözer eingeweiht.

Werke
 August Ludwig Schlözer, Dorothea Schlözer: Münz-, Geld- und Bergwerks-Geschichte des russischen Kaiserthums, vom J. 1700 bis 1789. Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, Göttingen 1791 (books.google.de).
 Ruth Finckh (Hrsg., unter Mitarbeit von Roswitha Benedix, Petra Mielcke, Ortrud Schaffer-Ottermann und Dagmar von Winterfeld): Das Universitätsmamsellen-Lesebuch. Fünf gelehrte Frauenzimmer, vorgestellt in eigenen Werken. Universitätsverlag Göttingen, Göttingen 2015, S. 273–313, ISBN 978-3-86395-243-3 (Digitalisat).

Literatur
 (Anonymus K.): Dorothea Schlözern, gebohren den 10ten August 1770. In: Annalen der Braunschweig-Lüneburgischen Churlande. 2. Jg., 1. Stück, Celle und Lüneburg 1788, S. 119–130 (uni-bielefeld.de).
 Anne Bentkamp: La Doctoresse. Roman über Dorothea Schlözer. Salsa, Göttingen 2020, ISBN 978-3-948235-05-5.
 Erich Ebstein: Vergessene zeitgenössische Urteile über Dorothea Schlözer. In: Niedersächsisches Jahrbuch 1924. Neue Folge der Zeitschrift des Historischen Vereins für Niedersachsen, Hildesheim 1924, S. 146–155.
 Alken Bruns (Hrsg.): Lübecker Lebensläufe. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1993, ISBN 3-529-02729-4.

 Lieselotte Jolanda Eberhard: Von der berühmten, gelehrten, schönen und trefflichen Dorothea Schlözer, Doctor der Philosophie, verehelichte von Rodde in Lübeck. Eine Sammlung von Bildern und historischen Texten (= Kleine Hefte zur Stadtgeschichte. Band 12). Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1995, ISBN 3-7950-3111-7.
 Friedrich Hassenstein: Art. Rodde-Schlözer, Dorothea. In: Biographisches Lexikon für Schleswig-Holstein und Lübeck, Band 10. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1994; auch in: Alken Bruns (Hrsg.): Lübecker Lebensläufe aus neun Jahrhunderten. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1993, S. 327–331
 Theodor Heuss: August Ludwig von Schlözer und seine Tochter. In: Ders.: Schattenbeschwörung. Randfiguren der Geschichte. Wunderlich, Stuttgart/ Tübingen 1947; Klöpfer und Meyer, Tübingen 1999, ISBN 3-931402-52-5.
 Bärbel Kern, Horst Kern: Madame Doctorin Schlözer. Ein Frauenleben in den Widersprüchen der Aufklärung. Beck, München 1988, ISBN 3-406-33304-4.
 Eckart Kleßmann: Universitätsmamsellen: fünf aufgeklärte Frauen zwischen Rokoko, Revolution und Romantik. Die Andere Bibliothek Bd. 281. Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-8218-4588-3.
 Martha Küssner: Dorothea Schlözer. Ein Göttinger Gedenken. Musterschmidt, Göttingen u. a. 1976, ISBN 3-7881-8030-7.
 Leopold von Schlözer: Dorothea von Schlözer. Ein deutsches Frauenleben um die Jahrhundertwende. 1770-1825. Deuerlich, Göttingen 1937.
 Ute Seidler: Zwischen Aufbruch und Konvention. Dorothea Schlözer. In: Kornelia Duwe u. a. (Hrsg.): Göttingen ohne Gänseliesel. Texte und Bilder zur Stadtgeschichte. Wartberg, Gudensberg-Gleichen 1989, ISBN 3-925277-26-9.
Monique Bernard: Charles de Villers. De Boulay à Göttingen. Itinéraire d'un médiateur franco-allemand. Éditions des Paraiges, Metz, 2016 und 2018.

Weblinks

 Literatur über Dorothea Schlözer in der Niedersächsischen Bibliographie
 Otto Ernst Hesse: Die erste Dr.-Phil.. In: Vossische Zeitung, 14. Juli 1925, Morgen-Ausgabe, S. 8.
 Jutta Duhm-Heitzmann: 17.09.1787 - Dorothea Schlözer wird "Dr. phil." WDR ZeitZeichen vom 17. September 2012. (Podcast)
 Dorothea Schlözer bei frauenORTE Niedersachsen

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Pemberton expresses 'sympathy' to Laude family, thanks Duterte for pardon: lawyer
Posted at Sep 13 2020 11:02 AM | Updated as of Sep 13 2020 06:02 PM
Convicted killer US Marine Lance Cpl. Joseph Scott Pemberton prepares for his deportation from the Philippines on Sunday, Sept. 13, 2020. Pemberton was pardoned by President Rodrigo Duterte last week. Handout photo from the Bureau of Immigration, ABS-CBN News
MANILA (UPDATE) - Convicted killer US Marine Lance Cpl. Joseph Scott Pemberton expressed Sunday his "most sincere sympathy" to the family of his victim Jennifer Laude as he was deported back to the US following an absolute pardon from President Rodrigo Duterte.
Pemberton, 25, left Manila via a military plane at 9:14 a.m. from the Ninoy Aquino Internal Airport, the Bureau of Immigration earlier said.
Pemberton's counsel, Rowena Garcia-Flores, said he "extends his most sincere sympathy for the pain he caused" to Laude's family.
"In the years he spent in confinement, he spent much time contemplating the many errors in his ways regarding the night of October 11, 2014. He wishes he had the words to express the depth of his sorrow and regret," she said.
Pemberton choked Laude to death on Oct. 11, 2014 inside a motel in Olongapo City, north of Manila, after finding out she was a transgender while in an intimate act.
In December 2015, a local court sentenced him to 6 to 10 years imprisonment, which he served inside a custodial facility in Camp Aguinaldo, Quezon City, and pay damages to Laude's family, which he complied with on Aug. 25, 2020, in the amount of P4.65 million.
A week before being pardoned by Duterte on Sept. 7, Pemberton was declared by the court eligible for early release on the account of good behavior in prison, a decision questioned by Laude's family, LGBTQIA groups, rights activists, and other sectors.
Garcia-Flores said Pemberton "wishes to express his deepest gratitude to President Duterte" for granting him absolute pardon.
"He is extremely grateful for this act of compassion," she said.
Meanwhile, the US Embassy in the Philippines said "all legal proceedings in the case took place under Philippine jurisdiction and law."
"Lance Cpl. Pemberton fulfilled his sentence as ordered by Philippine courts and he departed the Philippines on September 13," the Embassy said in a statement.
Lawyer Virgie Suarez, one of the counsels of the Laude family, said the victim's relatives "never received any letter of apology."
"Yung nakasakit o nakabangga ka lang, you would say sorry. Pero ito, pinatay niya, hindi man lang siya mag-sorry. Kailangan pa siyang utusan ng kanyang counsel! He owes it also to the Filipino people. More than anyone else, he owes it to the Laude family," she told ABS-CBN News.
(You say sorry when you slightly hurt or bump into somebody. But here, he killed a person, yet he hasn't said sorry. He has to be ordered by this counsel!)
"May he find peace of mind. Hoping he has learned from all these the value of life and dignity regardless of gender and nationality."
The US Marine served just over half of his homicide sentence at a facility guarded by the Bureau of Corrections at the Philippine military headquarters, instead of regular prison, following the US-Philippines Visiting Forces Agreement.
Pemberton was in the county at the time he committed the crime as part of a joint military exercise.
Laude's body was found wrapped in a bedsheet with her head slumped in the toilet bowl. A forensic pathologist testified she died of asphyxia.
Duterte's move to pardon Pemberton drew criticism, with members of the LGBT community and counsel of the Laude family saying that the President had bargained the Filipinos' sovereignty to the US.
'This country is not safe space for us': LGBT groups slam absolute pardon grant to Pemberton
'Sheer immorality': Duterte pardon of US Marine tied to foreign policy, says Laude camp
Robredo: Pemberton pardon proof that government sides with those in power
Pemberton pardon an 'affront' to LGBTQI community: rights body
--With reports from Angel Movido and Bianca Dava, ABS-CBN News
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A flooded street in Dhaka.
With multiplying impacts of climate change – increasing floods, cyclones, and drought – thousands of climate refugees are migrating to Dhaka. And the city, well beyond its carrying capacity, is bursting at the seams.
The word most often associated with Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, is perhaps, "overpopulated." Supporting more than 14 million people on less than 325 square kilometers (125 square miles) of land, the city's drainage, waste management and transportation infrastructure is on the brink of collapse.
Against that backdrop, it is hardly surprising to find the Bangladesh capital among the worst cities to live in on the Economist Intelligence Unit's 2015 ranking.
To delve beneath the apparent reasons – overpopulation, waterlogging and congestion – is to reveal a major underlying cause: unsustainable levels of climate-induced displacement and migration.
And the problems are washing up along Bangladesh's 700 kilometers of low-lying coast. Rising sea levels and cyclones heighten the risk of flooding, while riverbank erosion and seawater intrusion are set to have a devastating impact on the nation's population.
Coastal and river erosion is a major problem in Bangladesh.
"Over the next two to three decades millions of people will no longer be able to live and earn their livelihoods from farming and fishing as they are now," said Saleemul Huq, a senior fellow with the Climate Change Group of the International Institute for Environment and Development.
Conversely, prolonged droughts are affecting arable land by causing soil erosion and damaging crops that depend on predictable monsoon patterns.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates 20 million people will be displaced in Bangladesh in the coming five years. That is more than the cumulative populations of Los Angeles, Chicago and New York City. And this should be very worrying.
Even now, many of the half-a-million-plus people who move their families – along with their hopes – to Dhaka, are driven there by the effects of climate change.
Millions live in slums without water, sanitation, gas or electricity.
But the Bangladeshi capital, which teeters on less than 1 percent of the country's overall landmass, is far from being the promised land.
The combination of explosive population growth and land scarcity has sent its property and rental prices through the roof.
And given that most climate refugees come from humble financial backgrounds, they are left with little alternative but to join the estimated 3.4 million people who already live without gas or electricity in cramped and substandard squatter settlements, known as bosti.
Even in their new homes, they cannot escape the environmental disasters that drove them to seek shelter in the flimsy shack-like houses in this low-lying city on the banks of the Buriganga river.
The incidence of flooding in Dhaka is increasing, and the lack of water and sanitation facilities means waterborne diseases such as diarrhea and typhoid are widespread.
But health and pollution are not the only problems bosti-dwelling climate migrants face. Rahmat Ali, a resident of Dhaka's biggest slum Korail, moved to the city when saltwater logged his farmland. Once an agricultural worker, he now scrapes out a living as a rickshaw puller.
The effects of climate change are forcing millions from their rural homes.
With ubiquitous bostis and climate refugees dominating the cityscape, more affluent Dhaka residents are becoming increasingly desensitized and apathetic to their plight, and are coming to accept it as the norm.
This apathy is reflected in the country's policy sphere. "People are migrating to cities because the nation is not responding to their risks," says Aminul Islam, a member of the National Displacement Strategy Working Group under the Ministry of Disaster Management.
While Bangladesh has developed a solid strategic framework for tackling climate change – including its National Action Plan for Adaptation and the Bangladesh Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan – it has not yet prescribed any adaptation programs specifically addressing climate-induced internal displacement.
And that, thinks Islam, is a failing.
A city awash with the impacts of our changing climate.
Even if Bangladesh were to increase its adaptation efforts 100-fold, it can only go so far in protecting its people. From a Bangladeshi point of view, what it desperately needs are mitigation efforts by major carbon-emitting nations.
At the end of November, the world's leaders will congregate in Paris to try and achieve a universal, binding agreement for combating climate change. And for the millions of people living in vulnerable countries such as Bangladesh, their success at the negotiating table is crucial.
The situation in Dhaka illustrates how climate change is neither something that affects only polar bears, nor a problem only for future generations. Many fear that failure to act now will render the Bangladeshi capital a precursor for wholesale climate catastrophe.
This story was sourced through the Voices2Paris UNDP storytelling contest on climate change and developed thanks to Tamsin Walker and @DeutscheWelle. It was written Sohara Mehroze Shachi who graduated from Yale University in USA and is currently working at UNDP's climate change, environment and disaster management cluster. She has written on climate issues for different international publications including Deutsche Welle, Huffington Post and Asia Sentinel. Sohara is one of the 11 global recipients of the Climate Tracker Fellowship to attend COP 21 in Paris.


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Hold Tight: M. Ward keeps a firm grip on the past.
by Brian Staker
Matt Ward, known musically as M. Ward, has always had a fondness for old things—archaic yet hardy artifacts. He has held on to traditional musical forms, genres and even (mostly) sounds. Since the Portland artist's first album Duet For Guitars No. 2 (1999), his sonic palette has recalled a time a good century ago, before the electric guitar was a twinkle in Les Paul's eye.
"I've asked myself the same question," Ward says of his affection for the bygone eras. "Since high school I've loved nonlinear works of art, and answers to bigger questions that come through music in unpredictable ways. I'm attracted to elements of music of the past that have to do with music of the future," he explains. "There's a commonality between what happened and what will happen."
Maybe Ward seems like such a natural because his songs have grown along with him. "All the songs I've ever recorded I've been living with since before I can remember," he explains. "Just as John Fahey struck me, with how much history you can learn listening to him, sometimes you learn more about what life was like for people living then than reading a textbook." 2001's The End of Amnesia is all about waking up from our amnesia to history, and parts of it sound like it was recorded from the end of the deep tunnel of years stretching back, crackling and a bit faded.
Ward's new release Hold Time (Merge) incorporates into his sound a more-contemporary sensibility, though his methods are still the same, originating tracks with a four-track recorder, the favorite gear of indie musicians, before bringing them to the studio. Since his discovery by the likes of Conor Oberst and Isaac Brock of Modest Mouse and appearances on late-night talk shows, he's garnered backing vocals by Lucinda Williams, Jason Lytle, and Zooey Deschanel, with whom he also performs as She & Him.
Ward met Deschanel when he was writing the soundtrack for the indie film The Go-Getter. "Normally, images come in the act of composition," he explains. "But with a soundtrack, images come first." His music from the beginning has been highly evocative of visual ambiance, like it was meant to be used as a soundtrack; or, have a film written around it, some kind of period piece, with people riding bicycles with huge wheels, or the invention of baseball.
"It's been very instructional for me to have a lot of talented friends," he says. "Lucinda and Zooey, their voices are so different, but so great and evocative. Their voices aren't the only instruments added to his palette. "I learned how to arrange strings, and with a broader instrumental horizon, it changes the overall sound of the album. Some might find the new album a little overproduced, but Ward is just enlarging his range. His painstaking process has been able to continue on the Merge label: "I'm lucky that the label won't release anything till I'm happy with it."
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The Acts of Apostles (12:12) mention a man named John Mark in connection with a house that served the Christians in Jerusalem as a place for gatherings. It was perhaps his cousin Barnabas (Col 4:10) who acquainted him with Paul and Mark accompanied both of them on the first missionary journey (Acts 12:25). Eventually, he split away and returned to Jerusalem (Acts 13:13), which also caused tensions between Paul and Barnabas (Acts 15:37).
This Mark is attributed the authorship of Mark's gospel (the gospel actually never mentions the author), which is commonly dated about 65-70 AD (the first of the first canonical gospels).
Not much verifiable information is known about Mark, but tradition has him as the founder of the Church in Alexandria, where he also suffered martyrdom. His relics (according to tradition) were transferred to Venice (Italy) and also to the island Reichenau (in Lake Constance in southern Germany).
Mark's attribute as the evangelist is a lion.
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The Robert D. Orr Endowed Fellowship supports a PhD student at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (TEDS), who is committed to exploring the implications of biblical and theological perspectives for engaging medicine and technology. It is not expected that Orr Fellowship recipients will direct any of their doctoral studies or dissertation toward the study of bioethics; rather, this fellowship provides an opportunity to supplement the recipient's doctoral experience with an additional sub-specialization.
The Orr Fellowship awards unrestricted fellowships up to $5,000* per year along with a concurrent part-time Research Analyst staff appointment with The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity (for an additional $5,000 per year; total award & compensation package of up to $10,000* per year) to talented incoming and returning full-time TEDS PhD students who have shown remarkable academic performance with strong research potential and a demonstrated interest in the implications of biblical and theological perspectives for engaging issues at the intersection of medicine, science, technology and our common humanity. Successful Orr Fellowship recipients may apply for an annual one-year renewal of their Fellowship, and may serve as an Orr Fellow for a total of up to four years based upon exceptional service.
Orr Fellowship recipients are expected to assist The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity (CBHD), a leading Christian bioethics research center, for 5 hours per week performing scholarly tasks. In addition to these general expectations regarding the Fellowship, the Orr Fellowship recipient will also be employed as a part-time Research Analyst for CBHD for which he or she will receive a weekly stipend as compensation (for an additional 5 hours per week; 10 hours per week total expectation for the Fellowship and staff appointment). The Orr Fellowship is awarded jointly with the Research Analyst appointment, and the expectations and awards cannot be separated or individually accepted. The Orr Fellowship recipient/Research Analyst serves as a significant member of the Center's research team, performing the role of managing editor for two of CBHD's resources, and is involved in a number of scholarly activities gaining direct hands-on research and editorial experience. All applications are due by February 28, 2020.
*The Orr Fellowship award is reduced to $2,500 per year for a recipient who has completed all coursework; the part-time Research Analyst stipend increases to $5,500 per year for a total Fellowship & compensation package of $8,000 per year for a recipient who has completed all coursework.
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Updating you on what I've read lately. I tend to read more when I travel (long flights), so I thought it was time to share the books I've read since my summer reading post -- while traveling to Australia, Fiji and New York.
The only real reason I picked up The Fall was because I was in the book store at the airport and didn't have enough time to really look for a book. The title of this one caught my eye and it seemed short enough for me to read while on the plane, so I bought it. It's a bit more of a YA style novel, but it's fun for what it is -- and super easy to get through from start to finish. Nothing too memorable, but still fun.
You'll probably notice that there's another Tammy Cohen novel on this list. You might remember I read When She Was Bad and then said I'd start on Dying for Christmas right after, which I did. This book comes with a twist that I seriously could not figure out ahead of time. But once the twist was revealed, I did start to feel like I had read a twist like that in books past.
Also, there is another Blake Crouch novel here as well. He wrote Dark Matter on my previous list, which is seriously one of the best books ever written. Run is very good, but hard for it to live up to my previous read. Although I will say that it was very easy to visualize this book. I could totally see it as a limited summer TV series.
And yes, Liane Moriarty makes not one, but two cameos in this post. She is an author that always shows up on my Goodreads account, but I had no plans to read any of her books. Then Big Little Lies came out on HBO (read the best songs from the show here) and I was hooked. After I left Australia (where Liane is from), I stayed at a resort in Fiji that had a library full of Moriarty books. So I picked up The Husband's Secret and gave it a read. It was definitely my kind of read. I really enjoy books where a main character has a secret. The funny thing is, the secret is actually revealed fairly early into the novel so the rest of the time is spent wondering what the characters will do with what they know.
Then my blogger babe Tanvi recommended that I read What Alice Forgot so I gave it a go as well. I liked that this novel gets right into the premise: a woman hits her head and loses her memory of the last 10 years. She thinks she's 29 and pregnant with her first child, but actually she's about to turn 40, has three children, is divorcing her husband and has no recollection of anything. The interesting thing about this book is analyzing how Alice deals with finding out how her life has drastically changed in the past decade and what she's willing to do to get it back to the way it was. And why is the name Gina so integral to the story? If nothing else, Liane Moriarty is making me want to read Big Little Lies.
Many, many years ago, I had a friend of a friend who was really into The Dark Tower books. I mean, he was on high nerd level when it came to this book series. I never thought much of it. From what I knew, the books started off quite small and just got bigger and bigger with each new issue. Seemed pretty similar to the Harry Potter collection.
As you can imagine, when I saw the first trailer for The Dark Tower movie, I was immediately reminded of my friend of a friend's enthusiasm for the novels. And even though I had never read a single word of the book series, I was quite intrigued by the trailer. How could you not be intrigued by Idris Elba as a gun slinger and Matthew McConnaughey as the mysterious man in black?
But I actually still have yet to watch this movie or read the book. But I did buy the novel. Maybe I'll read it. Someday.
I love that you always dedicate time to read. I always tell myself whenever you share this kind of post, that I need to read. I'm so intrigued by What Alice Forgot. I do have trips lined up so hopefully, I can start reading in the airport!
My husband is currently listening to The Dark Tower audiobook. I need to get back to reading for the fall.
So cool you got to read all these, Cheryl! They all sound pretty interesting, esp. The Husband's Secret.
PS And my hubby read the whole Dark Tower series. I really want to read the books since we already have it at home. Not gonna lie...he didn't like the last book, but I found out a lot of peeps are divided with this King series.
I love updating my reading lists for my commute. I have not read these, but I think I'd be interested in The Husbands Secret. I have seen Run at the bookstore but didn't pick it up, so I will check that out.
Nice list. I have chosed 25 books to read last December 2016. Sad to say I have only read 2 and I am reading the third one now. I am such a slow reader. There are many distractions- movies, tv shows, social media, etc. I hope I find to read more.
Nice list. Definitely checking out The Dark Tower Series and the movie!
I love reading on planes, it is so relaxing! I place my head buds on and just get lost in my book- I Love it! (These days I travel with the littles-so my reading is interrupted often).
Dying for Christmas has me so intrigued I am hooked!
Oooh, What Alice Forgot sounds really interesting!
These books all sound so good. I keep buying books but make no time to read them....I need to get better at it.
I have the Husbands Secret but haven't read it yet. Currently reading "All the Missing Girls".
I need to read more Liane Moriarty!
Those all sound like such great reads! I am still meaning to read Big Little Lies.
These all sound like such great reads! I wish I had time to dedicate to reading, but kids and work keep pretty crazy these days!
I have been wanting to read The Fall! Going to pick it up today at the bookstore.
Liane Moriarty books are perfect for traveling. Nice list!


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-As we speak, billionaire developers are urging public officials to spend hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars on construction in the lower Hudson River, which threatens this unique and limited marine habitat and the coastal fisheries it sustains, as well as thousands of businesses that depend on those fisheries.
-New York City can expect to be hit by a major hurricane in the not-too-distant future, and this stretch of the estuary is especially damage-prone.
-The Clean Water Act effectively prohibits construction in and over near-shore waters for work that isn't both truly water-dependent and absolutely essential.
Volunteer with Sierra Club's New York City Group Hudson River Estuary Committee! Letting the lower Hudson River (HR) be a river instead of a real estate development site is critically important for keeping people out of harm's way in storms and hurricanes, and preserving an irreplaceable marine habitat that sustains Atlantic Coast fisheries. The HR Estuary Committee works to preserve nearshore habitats in other public waterways as well.
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As summer starts, the Sonoma County Republican Party is getting ready for a variety of activities. We will have a Day at the Range in July so that people can practice their shooting skills under the expert training of NRA instructors. This fund raiser is a great opportunity to hone your self defense skills. Our Day at the Range also includes a barbeque and the opportunity to socialize with like minded folks. Watch for the announcement on our web site.
Our gathering at Lagunitas Brewery in Petaluma, scheduled for May, was cancelled due to structural problems at the facility. It has been rescheduled for August 25th. Mark that date on your calendar. The $20 charge includes beer, pizza and a tour of the brewery.
This election season, the local Party will be focusing on local city council, school board and public board races. This focus is part of our effort to bring solid Republican principles to our public life.
Although there is much talk about the presidential race, in California because of demographics, we will not have that strong an impact on the results of the race. However, we can definitely work to affect what happens in our local communities. By electing more Republicans to local offices, we are developing a farm team that is equipped to run for higher office.
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The call came, as they always seem to do, when the parson was engaged in completing a project that had been dragging for an indecent amount of time. It was one of those projects Ms. Parson seemed to have foremost in her mind when she thought the parson possessed some discretionary time.
It was a member calling to say she'd seen an ambulance leaving Houston Carver's house a few hours before. "I was talking to Roger a few minutes ago and he said I should make sure you knew about this."
"Do you know if Houston has had a relapse or something else?"
"How would I know, Parson?"
"I thought you might have called someone in the family."
"Don't you think that if they needed anything they would have called me?"
"Gracious," said the parson, and then he bit his tongue. "Thanks for letting me know about this."
"You're welcome," she said. Then she hung up.
The parson called the local hospital. Roberta, the switchboard operator, answered. "Hey, Roberta," asked the parson, "how was the dance at the American Legion last Saturday?" Roberta was married to one of the deacons at a extremely conservative church. The parson was one of the few privy to the fact Roberta was not quite as conservative as her husband.
"Well, Parson, I didn't stay long enough to judge them. When they announced there would be no dancing on the bar I got up and left in protest."
The parson laughed and then asked, "Are you folks hosting Houston Carver in one of your suites?"
There was a pause and then Roberta replied, "No, Parson, we Houston's not here."
"Any chance he's in the ER?"
"Hold on a minute and I'll check."
In just a moment she was back. "Nope, he's not in ER. But if you promise to dance with me the next time I go to the Legion I'll tell you where he is."
"Well we be dancing the Tennessee Waltz or the Salty Dog Rag?"
"The Salty Dog Rag, of course."
"You've got it."
"Okay, I went ahead and called a couple of hospitals for you. He's over at Regional Medical."
"Thanks a bunch, Roberta."
The parson got up headed to the bathroom where he showered and shaved. He then got dressed and headed to the car. It was a twenty minute drive to the hospital. The parson asked Rhonda's counterpart what room Houston was in and headed up the elevator.
He knocked on the door and pushed it open slowly. Houston was not in the bed. He was sitting in the chair reading the newspaper. Except for the hospital gown he didn't look a bit sick. But Houston was sick. He'd been sick a long time. The battle was hard, but Houston's positive attitude so far had been equal to every setback.
"I expected to find you in bed," said the parson.
"Well, I've had a little downturn, but they've given me some pep-me-up shots. I'm supposed to take them for several days, then there's a couple of tests, and maybe some more surgery."
"Where's Edna?" asked the parson.
"I sent her home. She doesn't need to be hanging around here until when there's nothing going on. She's been not just a wife but a true blessing these last few years; she'll be here twenty-four and seven" Houston folded his paper and placed it on the hospital table. "Have a seat, Parson," he said. The parson sat in the chair facing him. "I've got a feeling this is going to be a difficult one, Parson," said Houston.
"What do you mean?" asked the parson.
"Well, you know, they can't keep operating, experimenting, and doing all the things they've done over the last three years. I just have this feeling I'm nearing the end."
The parson started to say something but Houston held up his hand. "I'm not being pessimistic, Parson," he said. "I'm just recognizing the fact that I've already beaten the odds by living as long as I have after the diagnosis."
The parson didn't argue. He and Houston had talked before about what lay ahead. Houston was under no illusions.
Houston's face contorted into the biggest smile the parson had ever seen on his face. "You sure look worried, Parson," said Houston. "Remember three years ago when I was beside myself that I was going to die?"
"I do," said the parson.
"I'll never know what possessed you to say what you did, but, boy, it jerked me up." The parson stared at Houston. "When I said, 'I'm going to die,' you said, 'Of course you are.'" Houston laughed again. The parson smiled at the remembrance. "And then I asked you what heaven was like and you said: 'How would I know.' That wasn't what I expected, Parson. But that was what I needed."
The parson leaned forward to speak. Houston held his hand up again. "I wanted you to tell me about angels and choirs and all that shit, Parson. I was scared to death that I was going to hell. And when I asked you if I might you gave me the same answer: 'How would I know.'"
Houston now leaned toward the parson. "I want to thank you for that. I expect if you had given me the standard brand answers that night I would have given up on this religion stuff. But you told me that you hoped after death we kept learning, that you couldn't conceive of ending this life without growing and maturing in understanding in the next. I can't tell you how much that meant to me. It wasn't very orthodox, but it sure spoke to me."
Houston reached to the table and poured himself some coffee from the carafe. He held it out to the parson who declined with a motion of his hand. Houston took a long sip of his coffee.
"Don't look so glum, Parson. If I die, well, here's where I'm at now. If I die and there's no afterlife I'll never know it. But if I die and there is an afterlife it will be no time at all until I'm more theologically advanced than you."
Houston laughed again. "Now get the hell out of here, Parson. You've got things to do. I'll need you around when they do the surgery so you can sit with Edna."
A few minutes later the parson walked back to his car and for some reason the opening lines to John Lennon's "Imagine" kept playing in his mind.
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Details of Long Wittenham's celebrations to mark this year's Diamond Jubilee have been sent to every household in the village.
Events will be centred around a Diamond Jubilee Street Party on Monday 4 June from 12 noon to 4pm in High Street which is being closed for the day.
Neighbours and friends are all invited for a community lunch. Table and chairs will be organised. You just need to bring a picnic or food for sharing – or you can buy food from the BBQ and Pig Roast.
There will also be a host of other events being organised including a parade of non-motorised vehicles, a cake bake and prize for the best decorated house. More details will follow in the coming months.
If you would like to know more, contact Cath Nicholson (407987) or Sandra at The Plough.
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We do not curently have theatre tickets available for Horrible Histories - Barmy Britain Part 3 This could be because we have simply sold out or it could be that this show is no longer running. The information on this page remains purely for historical and informational purposes.
Following the major sell-out success of Horrible Histories – Barmy Britain Parts One & Two, Birmingham Stage Company will return to the Garrick Theatre with a brand new instalment, Horrible Histories – Barmy Britain - Part Three! from 25 July – 5 September, making it the longest running show for children in West End history.
From the pens of Terry Deary and Neal Foster, the barmiest bits of British history will attack the stage, including a special sketch with King John to celebrate the 800th year of the signing of the Magna Carta.
Will King John be a martyr for the Magna Carta? Party with the Puritans and light up your life with the Great Fire of London! Clap along with crazy King Charles! Will you see eye to eye with Admiral Nelson? Does the Duke of Wellington get the boot? Vomit with the vile Victorians and make a great escape from the First World War.


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India will try to build up from slow and overcrowded trains to modern high speed rail
April 7, 2017 November 26, 2016 by Brian Wang
Indian Railways carries 23 million people daily on congested and aging tracks with roots dating back to British colonial rule. Sometimes, trains slow to a walking pace. India's Prime Minister Modi plans to spend 8.5 trillion rupees ($137 billion) through 2020 on new tracks, including bullet trains and modern stations, as he looks to spur a manufacturing boom.
The project Japan is backing will see the financial capital Mumbai linked by a 508-kilometer (316-mile) high-speed track to the economic hub of Ahmedabad, the largest city in Modi's home state of Gujarat. Japan has agreed to provide loans to cover up to 81 percent of the cost of one of India's biggest infrastructure endeavors.
While Japan is happy to divvy up the huge market for urban transit in increasingly traffic-choked cities across Asia, Abe wants to take the lead in high-speed rail, according to Hiroto Izumi, an adviser to the prime minister who has been negotiating the rail deal with India. He said it's important to get a foothold in Asia's second-most populous country to outpace China, Japan's primary competitor.
Japan's sales pitch revolves around quality: its network boasts a record of zero fatal accidents in more than half-century of history. Izumi said Japan's relatively high initial costs can be offset by lower repair expenses over a lifespan of decades.
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Master Clubs is a part of our children's ministry. The clubs meet on Sunday nights at 5:30p.m. during the school year, there are no clubs during the summer. Master Clubs perform their songs and verses occasionally on Sunday nights. Check out our calendar to see if a performance is coming up soon.
Think a four year old can memorize 20 verses in a year? Let a four year old in Master Clubs astound you by not only learning the verses but applying them too. The Beginner project workbooks cover topics like prayer, God, His Word, Jesus, creation, church, and many others. Every child can earn 23 badges, 12 stickers, 10 ribbons, and memorize 60 verses as a Beginner in Master Clubs.
Ambassadors begin to unlock key Bible principles including: Bible Study, Christian Service, Christian Living, Bible Doctrines, and more. You'll be amazed as your junior-aged children grow in their walk with God through Master Clubs' Ambassadors discipleship program. With well over 100 awards to earn, and 90 verses to learn with corresponding daily devotionals, there's always something to keep your children motivated to study their Bibles.
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