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Voting invalid according to court: Berlin election must be repeated completely
Long queues, closed polling stations, missing ballots: there were many mishaps in the election of the Berlin House of Representatives in September 2021.
16 November 2022 Wednesday 03:32
Long queues, closed polling stations, missing ballots: there were many mishaps in the election of the Berlin House of Representatives in September 2021. According to a ruling by the Berlin Constitutional Court, the vote must be repeated.
The election to the Berlin House of Representatives, which was marked by numerous mishaps, has to be repeated in its entirety. This was announced by the Berlin Constitutional Court. The vote of September 2021 is invalid. The judges thus stuck to their initial assessment, which Court President Ludgera Selting explained at the hearing at the end of September.
A redial must now take place within 90 days. According to the new state returning officer Stephan Bröchler, the most likely date is February 12th. His predecessor resigned after the Berlin election chaos last fall. On September 26, 2021 - in the middle of the corona pandemic - the Bundestag and the twelve district parliaments were re-elected in Berlin. There was also a referendum on the expropriation of large housing groups. The Berlin marathon also ran alongside.
The consequences of this concentration and poor preparation were massive problems, such as wrong or missing ballot papers, too few ballot boxes, the temporary closure of polling stations and long queues in front of them. Some voters voted after 6 p.m. or on hastily copied ballot papers because there were no supplies. Because of the numerous mishaps, Berlin's highest court had to review the validity of the elections to the House of Representatives and the twelve district assemblies. A total of 35 objections to the rating were submitted to him, four of which had initially been negotiated.
It was about the complaints of the state election authority, the internal administration and the parties AfD and the party. A repetition of the election to the Bundestag is also necessary - at least for some Berliners: Based on a recommendation from its election examination committee, the Bundestag decided last week with the votes of the traffic light parliamentary groups SPD, Greens and FDP that they in 431 Berlin electoral districts must be repeated. However, the parties in the Bundestag assume that the decision will be challenged before the Federal Constitutional Court.
Breakdowns like in September 2021 should not happen again. At least 38,000 poll workers are to be deployed in the election to the House of Representatives, instead of 34,000 as in the previous year. They should be better trained and receive significantly higher compensation. There should also be more ballot boxes in polling stations than last time.
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During last Monday evening's Provincial Leaders Forum at the Franco-manitobain Cultural Centre, Premier Gary Doer accused his two main rivals of promising to put "a chicken in every pot," because he felt Conservative Leader Hugh McFadyen and Liberal Leader Jon Gerrard were making spending and tax cut promises with "reckless" abandon.
NDP party officials have said that the Conservative tax and spending promises are approaching the $1-billion mark. To emphasize his accusation that McFadyen's promises are "reckless," Doer challenged the Conservative Leader by asking if he would be firing doctors or nurses in the province should he become premier.
Doer's reference to American presidents didn't end with the oft-cited — though distorted over time — "chicken in every pot" quote attributed to Herbert Hoover during the 1928 U.S. presidential election campaign. The NDP Leader said the tax cuts and spending promises made by his opponents, especially McFadyen's, were similar to the economic policy of U.S. President George W. Bush, whom he said has run up huge deficits as a result of his own "reckless" tax cuts and spending.
Doer talked tough on tax cuts, citing the NDP's thus far slow and steady cuts to business and personal income taxes as being the more affordable options. When he attacked his opponents' proposals for education tax reform, he drew the first round of applause from the audience.
In reality, both Gerrard and McFadyen have better platforms with regard to school tax reform than the NDP's ineffective system of rebates and credits.
The word "chicken" was actually first spoken by McFadyen, who accused Doer of being "chicken" for avoiding some of the other leadership debates.
McFadyen also accused Doer of reckless spending sprees, catering to unionized workers in the province while creating an out-of-control bureaucracy.
He singled out a burgeoning health care bureaucracy typified by the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority.
"Back up the Brink's truck," commented McFadyen, while accusing Doer of allowing bloated bureaucracies to flourish under his watch.
The Conservative Leader also accused the NDP of using increased tax revenue and federal transfer payments to embark on its spending spree, while robbing Manitoba Hydro revenues to balance the books and cover up its actions.
The chicken barbs, arising from an exchange between Doer and McFadyen, were a welcome interruption to the unappealing pattern of tow-the-party-line replies to questions posed by the three-member media panel.
The debate was dominated by comments about the economy with the Conservative and Liberal leaders trying to score points against Doer's eight-year fiscal record as premier. But Doer gave as much as he took. He is in his element whenever he or his government's record comes under attack. Among Manitoba politicians, Doer is best able to gauge the mood of an audience and work that angle to his advantage. Duplicating Doer's formidable communication skills is the challenge facing McFadyen and Gerrard.
On the Manitoba political scene, Doer is the NDP and the NDP is Doer. The present NDP situation is similar to the days when the "other Gary" headed the government and the Conservatives ran their election campaigns under the"Filmon Team" banner.
McFadyen's public persona is improving daily. He is growing more comfortable in his position as the new leader of the Manitoba Progressive Conservative Party, and has shown that he possesses a quick wit and is well-prepared when responding to questions. McFadyen may be emerging as the consummate politician, but it's his announcements during the heat of the election campaign that could be his undoing. If he thought promising to resurrect the Winnipeg Jets would lead him to the premiership, he was dead wrong. The public is not moved by such an obvious ploy to woo their votes. Among the party faithful, such announcements have left them shaking their heads in disbelief.
Although he has had many years to hone his debating skills, Gerrard still appears awkward during forums. He is a "good" individual with plenty of "good" ideas, but he is unable to overcome his public discomfort when articulating his party's platform. Being the most intelligent of the three candidates has not helped Gerrard, who clearly has difficulty responding in media-friendly sound bites — essential in any election campaign because of the public's wavering attention span — mastered by the other two candidates, albeit with varying degrees of success.
In politics, style always trumps substance. It may be unfair, but it's a reality that has to be stressed above everything else to Gerrard by his advisers.
It was perhaps the growing realization that the May 22 election is fast approaching that caused the verbal exchanges to intensify as the forum progressed. Both McFadyen and Gerrard suddenly seemed to acknowledge that they had just a week to convince Manitoba voters they deserve to be premier instead of Doer.
When given the opportunity, McFadyen hammered away at "a-get-tough-on-crime" stance, while Gerrard appeared most at ease when criticizing the NDP's handling of the health-care file. Gerrard said he used a panel of four doctors — he is a doctor himself — to come up with a platform that offers real solutions to the NDP's "funding black holes" which have resulted in lengthy waiting lists.
By the end of the forum, it became evident that Doer was wrong. If any one of the three leaders are elected premier on May 22, the promises they made — if kept — should result in each and every Manitoban having a chicken in their pot.


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Congress Threatens Banks to Stop Foreclosures
A senior House Democrat threatened banks that if they don't volunteer to save more homeowners from foreclosure, Congress will make them.
In a sternly worded statement, Rep. Barney Frank said Congress will revive legislation that would let bankruptcy judges write down a person's monthly mortgage payment if the number of loan modifications remains low.
Frank, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, also said his committee won't consider legislation to help banks lend unless there is a "significant increase" in mortgage modifications.
Frank's statement was aimed at adding momentum to a deal struck Tuesday between Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and more than two dozen mortgage companies. The two sides agreed to set the goal of adjusting 500,000 loans by Nov. 1.
But it was far from clear whether that would happen.
Loan servicers say they are still trying to play catch up to a deluge of customer requests by hiring and training thousands of new employees. Banks also are trying to sort through which customers face a legitimate financial hardship.
Also, many loans have been bundled and sold to investors as securities, complicating efforts to modify the terms.
Congress tried earlier this spring to pass legislation that would give people a chance to keep their homes by filing for bankruptcy. But while President Barack Obama said he supported the measure, he did little to see it through and it was defeated amid an aggressive lobbying effort by banks.
The measure failed in the Senate by a 45-51 vote, falling 15 votes short of the 60 needed to overcome procedural hurdles.
TUESDAY MEETING 7/28/09
The Obama administration, scrambling to get its main housing initiative on track, extracted a pledge from 25 mortgage company executives to improve their efforts to assist borrowers in danger of foreclosure.
In an all-day series of meetings at the Treasury Department, government officials reached a verbal agreement with the executives for a new goal of about 500,000 loan modifications by Nov. 1 and stressed the program's urgency.
The sessions came amid concerns that the Obama administration will fall far short of its original goal of helping up to 3 million to 4 million troubled borrowers with modified loans.
As of this week, only about 200,000 borrowers were enrolled in three-month trial loan modifications, out of about 370,000 who were offered modifications by mortgage companies.
"Today's meeting was an opportunity to identify ways to accelerate the program and bring relief faster," Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said in a statement.
But mortgage companies also say the Obama administration – which announced the program in February – left the public with the impression that the program would be instantly available.
"It was very difficult as an industry as a whole to try to live up to those expectations," said Dan Frahm, a Bank of America spokesman, who described Tuesday's meeting as a "realistic" exchange about how the industry can improve its efforts and possibly expand the loan modification effort to more borrowers.
For months, borrowers, housing counselors and activist groups alike have complained that the process is a confusing, bureaucratic nightmare.
"There needs to be a lot more accountability and oversight," said Brenda Muniz, legislative director for the community group ACORN, which has been holding protests around the country to draw attention to the slow progress of the administration's plan.
Mortgage companies, she said, are "doing things that are just outright prohibited" under the plan.
Housing counselors say borrowers are being charged upfront fees and given inaccurate or confusing information about the program. The delays are long and, in some cases, lenders continue the foreclosure process while loans are being reviewed for a modification.
On Tuesday, an activist group in Minnesota filed a lawsuit seeking to stop home foreclosures in that state. Mark Ireland, an attorney with the Minnesota-based Foreclosure Law Relief Project, said the government has failed to establish the procedures needed to ensure the fair and uniform administration of the program. Loan servicers are not required to tell a homeowner why they were denied a loan modification.
"Decisions are made under a cloak of secrecy and there is no formal way to challenge these decisions," Ireland said.
Even for those who are accepted, the process is often painful.
Alfred Robinson, 41, a bus driver in Kansas City, Mo. finally got a loan modification this month after a two-month struggle. He originally was told in early May that his income was too high to qualify and was offered a different — and much less favorable — loan modification by Washington Mutual, now owned by JPMorgan Chase & Co.
But two months later, the lender reversed course and offered him the Obama plan — that would lower his payment to about $950 a month. "They just dropped it a hundred bucks," he said. A Chase spokesman declined to comment.
One reason progress has been sluggish is that loan servicers have had to hire and train thousands of employees. The loans have been bundled and sold to hundreds of investors as securities, which often have differing rules about loan modifications.
Plus, mortgage companies have been swamped with thousands of calls from borrowers who want to take advantage of the program, and must sort out who is facing a legitimate financial hardship.
Many servicers didn't get set up to deal with the surge in problem loans and modifications until this year, said Thomas Lawler, a housing economist in Northern Virginia.
That, he said, "is pretty depressing because the problems have been going on for more than two years … It's a bit of an indictment of the whole mortgage servicing industry."
The industry, meanwhile, says the Obama administration's program isn't exactly simple to set up. It requires that mortgage companies verify borrowers incomes and submit numerous forms to the federal government.
"It's not the most streamlined process," said Paul Leonard, director of government affairs at the Housing Policy Council, a mortgage industry group.
Under the program, servicers can pocket up to $4,500 for each loan they modify. But they won't start to be paid until homeowners have made on-time payments for three months.
If the program doesn't kick in high-gear soon, the recent optimism about a real estate and economic recovery could fade as more borrowers fall into foreclosure, putting more downward pressure on home prices.
"Foreclosures are still rapidly escalating," said Andrew Jakabovics of the Center for American Progress, a think tank with close ties to the Obama administration. "If we don't get a handle on that … the economy is going to have a difficult time recovering."
Source: The Associated Press
UNF Among Best College in Southeast
The University of North Florida was named among the best colleges and universities in the Southeast by The Princeton Review.
UNF is among 141 top schools receiving the designation. The top schools are not ranked.
"We chose the University of North Florida and the other schools we recommend as our 'regional best' colleges primarily for their excellent academic programs," said Robert Franek, Princeton Review's vice president of publishing.
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Source: The Princeton Review
Home Price Index Adds to Spate of Upbeat Housing News
There were fresh signs that home prices in much of the country are stabilizing and the housing market is on the mend.
Home prices in May posted their first monthly increase since the summer of 2006, according to the Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller 20-city index. Prices rose from April in 13 of the cities tracked, notably Cleveland, Dallas and Boston.
The news follows upbeat reports showing sales of newly built and existing homes rose in June for the third straight month. And new home construction, while still weak, is the best it's been since the fall.
The news: The 20-city home price index rose 0.5 percent from April to a reading of 139.84, but was still 17.1 percent below May a year ago.
The 10-city index rose 0.4 percent from April to a measure of 151, but was off 16.8 percent from May last year. It was the fourth consecutive month both indexes indicated prices have turned the corner and are heading back toward positive territory.
The 20-city index has lost more than 32 percent since its peak reading of 206.52 three years ago. That means home prices are back to mid-2003 levels.
The report: The Case-Shiller index measures home price increases and decreases relative to prices in January 2000. The base reading is 100; so a reading of 150 would mean that home prices increased 50 percent since the beginning of the index.
What it shows: The index tracks repeat sales of a designated group of homes in each city. By measuring the sales price of the same properties over time, the index prevents the data from being skewed by a change in the types of homes sold. Sales between related parties, such as family members, are excluded because they may not reflect true market values.
What it doesn't show: The indexes only measure price data in 20 major metropolitan areas located in 15 states and the District of Columbia. So many areas of the country are not represented.
Why it matters: Investors closely watch the Case-Shiller indexes to gauge the level and direction of home prices. The indexes include a broader mix of properties compared to the index created by the Federal Housing Finance Agency. That index excludes many high-end properties, as well as homes bought with riskier mortgages or all cash.
The quote: "We may be on the way to recovery," said Maureen Maitland, vice president of S&P's index services. "I say 'may' because it's only been a couple months of data and home prices are seasonal … It will take a couple more months to see if we have turned around."
State, Florida Bar Offers Foreclosure Defense
The state and Florida Bar Foundation are teaming up to provide legal help for homeowners facing foreclosure.
Attorney General Bill McCollum and bar officials announced that $4 million the state obtained through a settlement with Countrywide Financial Corp. would be dedicated to the effort.
Countrywide, now owned by Bank of America, lost billions of dollars on bad loans. In a lawsuit, McCollum accused Countrywide of using deceptive practices.
McCollum's office and the foundation will make grants to nonprofit legal aid organizations so they can provide free services to homeowners who cannot afford lawyers.
The grants are expected to cover a two-year period beginning Oct. 1.
New Home Sales in U.S. Rise 11%
There's another positive sign that the housing market is recovering.
New home sales nationwide rose 11 percent in June to a seasonally adjusted rate of 384,000, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Lower home prices and a drop in mortgage rates are fueling sales.
Last week, the Florida Association of Realtors reported sales of existing homes were on the rise, with distressed sales making up a big part of those numbers.
Experts say there is still a big backlog of homes in the foreclosure pipeline, which they expect will remain blocked well into next year.
June Home Sales Up, Prices Down in Jacksonville
Sales of existing homes rose statewide and in Jacksonville in June, according to data from the Florida Association of Realtors.
But the median sales price continued to fall compared to a year ago, with prices down in 19 of the 20 markets tracked by FAR.
Sales of single-family existing homes in Jacksonville were up 16 percent compared to June 2008. The median price was $162,100, down 18 percent from a year ago. The statewide median price was down 28 percent to $148,000, though it was up 2.5 percent from May.
Sales of condominiums in Northeast Florida were up 1 percent, but the median sales price fell 32 percent to $124,300. Statewide sales were up 39 percent and the median price of $112,900 was down 37 percent.
Sales of foreclosures and other distressed properties continue to downwardly distort the median price because they generally sell at a discount relative to traditional homes, according to housing industry analysts with the National Association of Realtors.
Nationwide, existing home sales rose 3.6 percent to a seasonally adjusted rate of 4.89 million units in June from a downwardly revised pace of 4.72 million in May, but was still 0.2 percent lower than in June 2008.
The national median existing home price was $181,800 in June, down 15.4 percent from a year ago.
The National Association of Realtors latest housing industry outlook notes the $8,000 tax credit for first-time homebuyers is boosting the sector. "Strong activity by entry level buyers is helping to absorb inventory and allow some existing owners to make a trade," NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun said in a news release. But, he added, "the increase in sales is less than expected because poor appraisals are stalling transactions. The big question is how much the appraisal issue will impact the ability of contracts to go to closing."
Source: Florida Association of Realtors
Bank of America Launches Foreclosure Relief Program
Bank of America Corp. is mailing letters to borrowers who may be eligible for a foreclosure relief.
The program is part of an agreement the bank made with state attorneys general in October.
BofA has allocated up to $150 million nationwide to assist certain borrowers who experienced a foreclosure, short sale or deed in lieu of foreclosure on mortgages originated by Countrywide Financial Corp. BofA bought Countrywide in July 2008 for $2.5 billion.
Forty states are participating in the program. Borrowers will be notified by letter if they are eligible for a settlement payment. Payment amounts will vary.
Inquiries concerning the foreclosure-relief program should be directed to Rust Consulting at (866) 411-6987 or countrywidesettlementinfo.com.
The foreclosure-relief effort is one of three components of BofA's agreement with the state attorneys general.
The second component, the National Homeownership Retention Program, is designed to achieve affordable and sustainable mortgage payments for up to 400,000 borrowers who financed their homes with subprime or payment-option, adjustable-rate mortgages serviced by Countrywide.
The third component provides relocation assistance to borrowers who experience a foreclosure sale and agree to leave the property voluntarily. They are eligible to receive a cash payment to ease their transition to a new place of residence.
Additional information is available at my.countrywide.com/media/HRPFactSheet.html


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FRANCIS INVITES KIDS FOR A RIDE IN PAPAL JEEP, GREETS 50TH ANNIVERSARY COUPLES
Some great video from today's general audience when Pope Francis invited some youngsters to board the Popemobile for a ride around the square. Pope Francis also had special greetings for a number of couples celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary: "Before I begin the catechesis I would like to greet a group of couples celebrating the fiftieth wedding anniversary. How's that for good wine! Thank you for your testimony! It's a beautiful example for newly married couples."
I have some friends who today are marking their 20th anniversary – I hope they understood Francis' words (read the next article). Also mentioned in this video is the fact that, due to the hot weather and sun the Vatican handed out umbrellas marked with the Vatican flag, so the sick in the front rows were not uncomfortable. http://www.romereports.com/2016/06/08/the-pope-thanked-several-couples-celebrating-50-years-of-marriage
A new cycle of catecheses on Jesus' miracles was introduced by the Holy Father this morning at the weekly general audience. He focused on the first miracle quoted in the Gospels, that is, the wedding feast at Cana when he turned water into wine.
Earlier this year the Pope offered reflections on parables of mercy during this Jubilee Year, the Pope said Christ's miracles were not performed so that people would "marvel" at them, but rather, through them, Christ revealed the Father's love for us. They are also, he said, an invitation for the renewal of our faith.
Francis said at the start of today's audience, "In our continuing catechesis for this Holy Year of Mercy, we now consider the first of Jesus' miracles, the changing of water into wine at the wedding feast of Cana. Saint John fittingly calls these miracles "signs", for by them the Lord reveals the Father's merciful love. Jesus' choice of a wedding feast points to the deeper meaning of this miracle. It is a sign of the new covenant that he came to inaugurate, the messianic banquet promised for the end times, where he is the Bridegroom and the Church his bride.
"By changing the water kept for ritual purification into new wine," continued the Holy Father, "Jesus signals that he is the fulfilment of the Law and the prophets."
And the Pope then noted the last recorded words of Mary in the Gospels: "Mary's command to the servants – 'Do whatever he tells you' – can serve as a program of life for the Church. We are called constantly to renew our love for the Lord, and to draw new wine, new life, from his saving wounds. The miracle at Cana reminds us that we are invited, as members of the Lord's family, the Church, to draw near to him in faith, and thus to share in the joy of the wedding feast of the new and eternal covenant."
A PAPAL AUDIENCE UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL
I just received an email from friends of mine who are in Italy on vacation. Teresa and Rich attended today's general audience and this is what she shared with me (and allowed me to share here):
"The Pope was in jovial form today, and made the Wedding at Cana seem as though it were truly a CELEBRATION! …The Gospel message today came as a pleasant surprise. The wedding at Cana. . .our 20th wedding anniversary. . . Thank the good Lord! This was truly a gift to us!
"I think one of the biggest blessings today, came in the form of a young 4-year old boy from the Philippines, who's family traveled some 14 hours by air to be present for the Pope's Wednesday audience. We met this family while standing in line to get into the piazza, early this morning. This family came in hope of having a glance at the Pope, and for this lovely child of theirs to receive a blessing. Sure enough, as Divine Providence would have it, this little boy was given to one of the Pope's attendants to receive a blessing. I snapped a few photos to give to his family. They were delighted. (No small miracle to find them after the service, but again, the Holy Spirit was at work!)"
Teresa sent the following photos, including the one where Pope Francis is blessing the little boy with Downs Syndrome.
JUNE 8: THE WORLD PRAYS FOR PEACE
On June 8, 2014, following his three-day trip to the Holy Land, Pope Francis prayed for peace in the Vatican gardens, joined by President Shimon Peres of Israel and Mahmoud Abbas, president of the state of Palestine.
At that time, he said, "I am profoundly grateful to you for accepting my invitation to come here and to join in imploring from God the gift of peace. It is my hope that this meeting will be a path to seeking the things that unite, so as to overcome the things that divide.
"Dear Presidents," stated Francis, "our world is a legacy bequeathed to us from past generations, but it is also on loan to us from our children: our children who are weary, worn out by conflicts and yearning for the dawn of peace, our children who plead with us to tear down the walls of enmity and to set out on the path of dialogue and peace, so that love and friendship will prevail.
"Many, all too many, of those children have been innocent victims of war and violence, saplings cut down at the height of their promise. It is our duty to ensure that their sacrifice is not in vain. The memory of these children instils in us the courage of peace, the strength to persevere undaunted in dialogue, the patience to weave, day by day, an ever more robust fabric of respectful and peaceful coexistence, for the glory of God and the good of all."
Today, two years later, is the second anniversary of that prayer for peace meeting.
Vatican Radio gave the following report on this anniversary:
The International Forum of Catholic Action, WUCWO, Italian Catholic Action, Argentinian Catholic Action and the National Justice and Peace Council of the Argentinian Episcopal Conference once again launched the initiative "A minute for peace."
In response to the constant appeal by Pope Francis never to tire of praying and working for peace, the promoters of this initiative are asking their members and all men and women of good will to stop for a minute at 1 p.m. on June 8 – at the workplace, in the street, at home – to pray for peace.
The Tonga Islands were the first to pray for peace. In the capital Nuku'alofa, at 1 p.m. on 8 June, the women of WUCWO (World Union of Catholic Action Women Organizations) stopped in recollection, while in Italy, at that time, the new day was just dawning.
In Argentina at 1 p.m. on June 8, the bells of many churches in the different dioceses rang to invite the faithful to unite in prayer. Many institutions and organizations have joined in this initiative, including the Council for Religious Freedom, the Department for the Laity, the Islamic Centre of the Republic of Argentina, the Scouts, the Sant'Egidio Community, the Focolare Movement, the Christian Family Movement, the Federation of Catholic Workers' Circles and the Catholic University of Argentina.
In Rome, at the general audience in St. Peter's Square, there was a group of young people who symbolically represented all the promoters of this initiative. At 1 p.m., in the nearby church of Santo Spirito in Sassia, there was a prayer presided over by Archbishop Rino Fisichella, president of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of New Evangelisation and coordinator of the Jubilee of Mercy.
In Bethlehem, the local Catholic Action organized a prayer session in the Nativity Grotto. In Medellin, Colombia, young people and adults, as well as the very young, have prepared colored banners. In Bujumbura, the capital of Burundi, the scene of continual violence during these last months, leaders and assistants of Catholic Action Movements joined together in prayer and involved the whole population via radio.
The appeal for peace is available in more than 30 languages. In addition to Italian, English, French and Spanish, it may also be found in Arabic, Hebrew, Greek, Birmanian, in the language of the Guarani Indos of Latin America, in the Hausa language spoken in Mali, the Togo Ewe and the Kikuyu of north Kenya thanks to the collaboration of leaders from the different countries.
This year, the organizerrs ask people to remember in a special way refugees and asylum seekers who desperately flee from wars, to tell them that they are not alone and to confirm our commitment to welcome them and to show them solidarity.


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Minot Chamber Ambassadors will cut the ribbon at Sundara Salon and Spa to welcome them to Minot. Their Grand Opening will begin at 6pm.
Join us for our annual citywide clean up! Project CLEAN (Community Leaders Enhancing Area Neighborhoods) holds this each year to prepare for the summer months as visitors make their way into the Magic City, we want to make sure there is a welcoming site and not trash. Once the snow melts, and it will eventually be gone, it uncovers the garbage that has blown away from cans, or has been thrown on the ground, and that's not appealing. So get your teams together and helps us make Minot shine! Stop by the Chamber at 1020 20th ave SW to sign up and get some garbage bags.
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Imagine working in a factory when suddenly an alarm goes off – one of the machines is on the fritz. But which one? Fujitsu's smart glove and augmented reality glasses concept would tell you exactly where the problem is and how to fix it. A foreman, employee, or whoever is in charge of maintenance would just slide on the glasses and follow the arrows projected on the lenses to the source of the problem.
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Posted on June 21, 2012 by ogresan
Sometime back in the mid-nineties, just a year or two after I'd started publishing regularly, I was asked to write a profile. I don't remember by whom. I don't even remember what for. But I stumbled upon it a while back. Most of it is out of date, other parts are simply overblown and embarrassing, and show just how full of myself I was at the time(Which makes me wonder how much has really changed). But as a document of where I was and what was passing for reflection in my feeble excuse for a brain at the time, I found it interesting. I can't see how anyone else would but, hey, tough noogies. This is my blog and I feel like sharing. Or in the words of past philosophers– "I've suffered for my art. Now it's your turn."
No one said this was going to be easy.
I started writing seriously in 1976, and after a mere four years sold my first story to Elinor Mavor's Amazing SF Stories. [1]. Then, except for a few small press items, sold absolutely nothing else for thirteen years. It occurs to me that the powers in charge of keeping the cosmic balance went a tad overboard.
If it's true that "life is what happens while you're making other plans," then life was happening in the interval. I kept busy. I married a poet and managed to stay married to her despite all the mistakes and mis‑communication that can happen between two people. I got two BS (fill in your own interpretation) degrees, first in Polymer Science and then in Computer Science. I took up woodcarving and spent ten years in the SCA. And kept writing. Five books. Lotsa stories. It wasn't determination or perseverance that kept the words coming‑‑sometimes being a writer seems more like having an obsessive/compulsive disorder than a higher calling.
Why sf/f? I don't know, but for whatever reason I've always sought out the fantastic. I'm a member of one of the first television generations and some of my earliest coherent memories are of the old SF puppet series Fireball XL5, then the original Twilight Zone and later The Outer Limits. TZ probably had the greatest impact; it gave me nightmares! My imagination was already set on overload and I used to hide under the bed whenever the theme music played, just to escape the bad dreams I knew would come. Later the nightmares became more manageable as I learned to focus, if never totally control, my imagination. Learning to read just gave me another tool for the same process, and books provided a much more varied experience. It wasn't long before I shifted to books almost exclusively for my fix of the fantastic.
There were little epiphanies along the way. They explain nothing but perhaps serve as markers on the road. I wrote fiction in high school but not in any systematic way, and committed enough poetry in college to prove‑‑to myself at least‑‑that I wasn't a poet. I only got serious about writing prose after reading The Lord of the Rings for the first time. It was like the last few grains of plutonium that give the pile critical mass, and I clearly remember it as the time I was finally able to articulate the effect that fiction had on me: If this is storytelling, then that's what I want to do. Writers as diverse as Ray Bradbury, Parke Godwin, John Irving, Ursula LeGuin, Peter Beagle, Andre Norton and Thomas Burnett Swann had similar effects at different points along the way. Everything I've written since has just been part of the effort to cut my own path to the same well.
In the summer of 1993 Gardner Dozois took "Laying the Stones," a digression from what would later become A Warrior of Dreams, for Asimov's SF. Gardner wasn't the first editor to buy from me, but he was the one who broke my second sale jinx and come what may I'll always owe him for that. After that sale something was definitely changed. For starters, my output went up quite a bit. In addition to that‑‑or because of it‑‑more sales quickly followed to Science Fiction Age, Dragon Magazine, Shawna McCarthy's new magazine Realms of Fantasy, and the Pulphouse anthology SplatterFairies[2] I intend to keep adding to that list.
It's been said that the difference between SF and Fantasy is one of direction; that SF is "the impulse to understand" looking outward, while Fantasy is the same impulse turned inward. There are exceptions all over the place but I think it's generally true. Purists favor one form or the other and will argue for hours about which is superior. To me that's like arguing which side of the same coin shines the brightest. Science has made us a lot smarter but not much wiser. Science can give us the means to reach the stars but it can't give us the will. The desire to understand the universe and the desire to understand ourselves is at heart the same desire; we can not and should not deny either one.
I was a reader long before wanting to write, and Science Fiction was where I started. Fantasy as a category didn't exist, and at the time I probably wouldn't have cared for it if it had. This was at a time when everything worthwhile seemed "out there" beyond wherever I was at the moment and SF was my way of making contact with it. It wasn't until college and LOTR that the more introverted side of literature began to appeal to me. For many years afterward I read no SF at all. Now that's starting to change as I learn to balance the impulses. My first published story was Fantasy, the second SF. Writing both is a good way of exercising both sides of the brain.
There's probably a master's thesis or two in the works on the effect that computer bulletin boards and online services are having on communities in general and writers and artists in particular. While much has been written on the effect of the word processor, I think the computer's main contribution to the field may actually be more in its role as communication device. Both aspects of the machine help get the work done. For instance, I found out about my second sale online. Sales number four and six came about because of information received through the electronic grapevine. I've been able to carry on conversations with many writers and editors, people who would have taken me several lifetimes to meet otherwise.
Easy communication is not something I take for granted. It may help to understand that I was born and raised in Mississippi, and after brief attempts to live in Pennsylvania and Alabama, returned here. While there's no shortage of writers in this state, they're mostly working in a tradition of which the gothic and the folktale may play a part but SF/F definitely does not. According to the 1994 SFWA Directory there is one other SFWA member in the entire state.[3] To say I'm fairly isolated physically from my peers is an understatement, and there are plenty of other writers with the same problem. We may all work alone, but the contact with people who have been through it all before and know exactly what you're talking about goes a long way toward easing the isolation. The computer makes that contact a lot easier.
It was while online that another writer once asked me how I'd stood being unpublished for so long, since the two‑year gap between his first and second sales had felt like eternity. The only answer I have is that there are no mile markers in eternity. If the gap had been shorter I wouldn't have enjoyed it any more. Despite all that was good and right in my life, there was something missing. It felt a lot like being lost. When "Simple Souls" appeared in the March 1994 issue of Science Fiction Age, I felt as if I'd finally come home.
[1] Note : My actual first sale was to a short-lived fanzine called Prelude to Fantasy, but this was my first pro sale
[2] [Note: The anthology was never published, because Axolotl Press folded. The story, "Doing Time in the Wild Hunt" eventually appeared in The Ogre's Wife.
[3] Now there are three.
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Let's use I-732 (revenue-neutral carbon tax swap) to beat I-1366 (Eyman's 2/3 super-majority blackmail)
Posted on November 5, 2015 Author admin	Comments(2)
There's a simple way to beat Tim Eyman and his initiative I-1366. At the same time we'll help the environment, and, optionally, raise revenue to fund schools. And we can even do it in a revenue-neutral way, thereby making it palatable to Republicans.
By way of background, recall that if I-1366 passes — and early returns suggest that it will — one of three things must happen.
The legislature must put before Washington State voters a constitutional amendment requiring a 2/3 super-majority of legislators in both the state House and the state Senate (or a majority of voters) to approve any tax increase or reduction in tax breaks; or
The state sales tax must be lowered from 6.5% to 5.5%; or
The state Supreme Court will have to rule that I-1366 is unconstitutional.
But I say there's a simple solution to this problem, even if the State Supreme Court fails to rule I-1366 to be unconstitutional.
Let's go ahead and lower the sales tax 1% but at the same raise taxes on carbon, capital gains, and/or income to make up the loss.
The tax on carbon will be similar to the effect of I-732 being (successfully) pushed by CarbonWA. One difference is that I-732's tax would be revenue-neutral, whereas the current proposal allows, but doesn't necessitate, revenue neutrality.
Because I-732 apparently has enough signatures to succeed, and because I-732 is an initiative to the legislature, the legislature will need to decide next year whether to impose a revenue-neutral tax on carbon. If they fail to act, a measure will appear on the ballot in 2016 to raise tax on carbon and lower the sales tax and the B&O tax in a revenue-neutral way. My point is: the legislature can use I-732 (or something similar) to neutralize I-1366.
But in addition to raising tax on carbon, we should raise taxes on capital gains and/or on income (with the first, say, $50,000 of income exempt from tax). These taxes would make Washington State's tax system more fair and progressive. They'd lower tax on most people. After all, our state is said to have the most regressive tax system in the nation.
The voters are correct to be angry about high taxes! Most people are over-paying. What most people don't understand is the reason their taxes are too high: because our tax system is regressive.
The net result of this proposal is that we'd satisfy the words of I-1366 — we'd lower the sales tax by 1%. But what's great is that we'd also lower taxes on most people, help save the environment, and make our tax system more progressive.
Even if the tax shift is revenue-neutral — and that would be easier to pass in the legislature — the change will be a big win.
So, there should be no need to be afraid of I-1366 — if the legislature has the guts to do the right thing and if the people of Washington can be educated about what's in their own self-interest.
The key is just that: educating the public. Will our political leaders show some leadership and help educate the citizens? And will we activists build an effective movement to help this happen? Until we educate the public on this issue, we will continue losing elections and initiatives.
I admit that Republicans in the legislature are unlikely to be reasonable about raising an income tax or capital gains tax. Most of them would be OK with public education failing and with homeless and sick people languishing on the streets. Conservatives will argue that the legislature mustn't dare go against the will of the voters, who say by their votes that they do not want additional revenue. I have two answers to this.
First, if we make the change revenue-neutral, then the Republicans may agree. As CarbonWA has shown, many conservatives will agree to a revenue-neutral tax shift (for example, More and more conservative thinkers want to tax carbon. Will politicians and activists follow? and Why We Support a Revenue-Neutral Carbon Tax). In fact, many lefty groups are opposed to I-732 because of its revenue-neutrality and because it was designed in consultation with people from the conservative Washington Policy Center. (See Alliance for Jobs and Clean Energy, Carbon-tax initiative divides environmentalists, and Why I decline to sign I-732).
Second, the voters are voting against their own self-interest and need to be educated as to why the current tax system is unfair and inadequate.
But we can beat I-1366 without raising revenue.
Note: This article was previously published under the name Hell, yeah! Let's lower the sales tax 1% — and raise taxes on carbon, capital gains and/or income.
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Out of the 4.6 million registered voters in Washington State, 2.4 million (51.9%) are female. Out of the 3.4 million active registered voters (meaning they've voted since 2012), 2.4 million (52.8%) are female. Women rule — or at least decide who rules — in Washington State. Furthermore, older people vote at much higher numbers than […]
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This is largely correct. In addition to the tax cuts, there are also wars to pay for, and mismanagement and corruption. As Frank Thomas says in his 2008 book "The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule," Republicans don't want government to work, so they intentionally mismanage and corrupt it. In other words, perhaps the country IS […]
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Our Supreme Court refuses to enforce our State Constitution… and turns their backs on one million children David Spring M. Ed. Director, Fair School Funding Coalition springforschools@aol.com On Thursday January 5, 2012, the Washington State Supreme Court issued an opinion in the NEWS Education Funding Lawsuit, essentially upholding the Trial Court decision that the State […]
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Good analysis about the differences between initiatives to the people and initiatives to the legislature!
The text of I-732 says "There is levied and collected a tax equal to six and five-tenths percent, decreasing to six percent beginning July 1, 2017, and to five and five-tenths percent beginning July 1, 2018,"
If the legislature approves this initiative I-732, which sales tax would take precedence? I-732 or I-1366?
Perhaps I-1366 would apply from April 16, 2016 til I-732 takes effect on July 1, 2017.
But the two initiatives directly contradict each other on what and when sales taxes will apply. So maybe the courts would have to decide.
But the legislature could, effectively, co-opt both initiatives by passing its own bill that lowers the sales tax by 1% (thus satisfying I-1366) and making up for the lost revenue by raising tax on carbon, capital gains, and/or income. You are correct that Republicans are unlikely to go along with taxes on capital gains or income. They might agree on a revenue-neutral tax swap between sales and carbon. But could that go into effect by April 16, 2016? Maybe somewhat later.
You are apparently correct that the legislature can't directly use I-732 to counteract I-1366, because the starting dates don't match. But because of the conflict in starting dates and sales tax amounts, the courts could decide.
As you say, the best solution now is for the State Supreme Court to rule that I-1366 is unconstitutional. If it fails to do that, or if the U.S. Supreme Court over-rules the State Supreme Court, then is our only alternative to wait til we have a progressive legislature? That won't happen for 13 months at the earliest.
Some sort of swap between sales tax and, say, carbon still seems feasible, if politically difficult.
The Secretary of State's election website says "The Legislature can approve an alternative to the proposed initiative, in which case both the original proposal and the Legislature's alternative must be placed on the ballot at the next state general election." This is one path to using a bill similar to I-1732 to overcome I-1366.


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Contrary to belief, Farmers' Market are not necessarily a new thing in Singapore, what with a good number of wet markets still operating efficiently across the island.
Yet the largest of these 'Farmers' Markets' is undoubtedly the Pasir Panjang Wholesale Centre. Spanning an area that covers 20 football fields, it is home to the largest selection of vegetable, fruits and dried foods wholesalers as well as cold storage facilities in Singapore.
Forklifts run at high speeds past crates upon crates of produce that arrive mainly from Malaysia and Thailand.
While most of the activity happens between 2am-4am on a daily basis, a small number of stalls still hawk their wares at decent prices throughout the day.
Opened in 1983, it was built to relocate wholesale sellers from the old Ellenborough Market and Clyde Market (also known as Beach Road Market) that initially shifted to the Jurong Fishing Port and Central Fish Market in 1969. They were then seperated for hygeine purpose, with the latter location catering to poultry and seafood produce.
While the Pasir Pangjang Wholesale Market is open for most of the day, the peak of its operations happens during the short span between 2am-4am. During this period, over 300 stalls conduct their trade activities with prospective buyers, kind of like what they do at the famous Tsukiji Fish Market in Tokyo, albeit leaning towards a more vocal form of a bidding war.
Most of the produce here is largely imported from Malaysia and Thailand. The freshness and affordability sold at its 1,405 stalls is perhaps second to none, while the range of items combined with the sheer numbers (500,000 tonnes annually on average) provide an indicator of the consumption habits of our increasing population.
Like any typical Singaporean, getting a discounted steal on products that are sold at relatively higher prices in supermarkets or provision shops is about as equivalent to striking the lottery.
A wholesaler carts his produce across the near 430m expanse of the auction hall that can house over 300 stalls at any given time.
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So let me ask: how do you think about adversity? Is it something to be 'gotten through' and 'overcome'? Is it something from which you have to distract yourself? Is it automatically something that will make you suffer?
Or is it a magnificent learning experience where you are given the opportunity (if you so choose) to be the hero of your own life? You see, the disparity in those two points of view, makes all the difference in how greatly you will suffer during the process. Adversity with a purpose that leads to understanding and growth, and to greater dimensions of the self as a well-rounded human being, and that further leads you to greater connection with yourself, and to caring more for yourself as you go through the adversity, is adversity well-used. The other kind is merely torture of varying degrees. You choose.


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Ryan Swift
South China Morning Post 30 July 2019
Hong Kong needs a centralised port authority to help oversee changes that will enable the ageing 50-year-old Kwai Tsing Container Terminal to cope with rising competition from other logistics and port operators around the region, according to experts.
Kwai Tsing has undergone successive expansions nearly every decade since it was completed in the 1970s, such that it can now support 24 cargo ships berthed simultaneously.
Unlike other ports in the region, Kwai Tsing's facilities are shared among five independent operators, a system that is "quite unusual" for the region, according to Professor Collin Wong Wai-hung, a supply chain and logistics expert at Hang Seng University in Sha Tin.
He said that Singapore has a single operator in the form of the Port of Singapore Authority, which could help to explain its rising throughput volumes, whereas Kwai Tsing is the only port in the top five globally to lose traffic in the four years to 2018.
How Hong Kong's port can stay competitive, and ahead of rivals in the Greater Bay Areaitive-and-ahead
Roberto Giannetta, executive director of the Hong Kong Liner Shipping Association, said Hong Kong has to take aggressive action to deal with declining volumes, particularly in transshipment trade.
"Without a port authority, Hong Kong cannot compete on the same footing [as other ports]," he said. Giannetta noted the failure of local government departments to work together on port issues, citing the six-year failed effort to relax air draft restrictions at the Tsing Ma Bridge, which limits larger ships from traversing Hong Kong waters. The penalty for vessels passing above the 53 metre height limit on the Tsing Ma Bridge range from a fine to imprisonment, according to the Marine Department.
Tsing Ma Bridge height debacle costing Hong Kong billions
Hong Kong's share of the transshipment business could face further pressure, thanks to the trade tensions. Drewry, a UK maritime consultancy, has reduced its total container throughput growth forecast from 3.9 to 3 per cent for 2019, citing US-China trade war concerns, global instability and new emissions regulations affecting the shipping industry.
About 70 to 75 per cent of Kwai Chung's container business involved transshipments, compared to about 90 per cent in Singapore, according to Dr Wong.
Hong Kong's competition watchdog has opened an investigation into whether a new 'super alliance' between four of the five operators at the Kwai Tsing Container Terminal breaches antitrust regulations. Photo: Roy Issa
Hong Kong's port falls under the oversight of the Transport and Housing Bureau. Alan Lee Goldstein, a marine engineer and planner who helped design container ports for SeaLand, said Hong Kong needs a port authority similar to that of New York and London. "It needs to be somewhere between public and private [in operation], like the MTR," Goldman said.
Giannetta said the transshipment business was important to Hong Kong's future role in maritime professional services such as arbitration, financing and maintenance.
"If we continue to lose cargo throughput and shipping companies' regional offices, we will not be able to attract those other peripheral maritime services," Giannetta said. He said shipping agencies such as CMA CGM and the Japanese shipping conglomerate ONE have recently established regional headquarters in Singapore instead of Hong Kong.
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Port and related logistics businesses represented 3.4 per cent of Hong Kong GDP and supported 300,000 direct and indirect jobs, or 7.5 per cent of city's total employment, according to Dr Wong.
In January this year, Hutchison Ports, COSCO-HIT, Asia Container Terminals Modern Terminals, four of five operators at Kwai Tsing announced the creation of the Seaport Alliance to coordinate their operations. The aim is to increase coordination and efficiency to deal with the mega container ships now being built by shipping lines, and the formation of shipping alliances.
The Hong Kong Competition Commission has promised to investigate claims by trucking associations that the alliance will lead to a port operator cartel.
The Kwai Tsing Container Terminal supports capacity for 24 cargo ship berths among five operators. Photo: Roy Issa
But Dr Wong defended the Seaport Alliance as a "reasonable move", saying that Hong Kong had to compete with Shenzhen on port on efficiency and cost.
Could Kwai Tsing container terminal site be the next Canary Wharf?
"Hong Kong cannot rely on its historic presence as the No 1 container port in the world to retain its position in the future. Hong Kong is no longer a must-call port," said Gianetta.
Port of Singapore's throughput – a measure of the amount of cargo passing through a port – has increased from 33.87 million twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) in 2014 to 36.6 million TEU in 2018. Over the same period, Hong Kong's throughput fell from 22.23 million to 19.6 million TEU, dropping from fourth to seventh globally among container ports.
Shanghai's throughput rose from 35.3 million to 42 million TEU, while Shenzhen rose from 24 million to 27.7 million TEU, according to the World Shipping Council.
More from South China Morning Post:
Kwai Tsing agrees to new columbariums
Flats above container port could ease housing shortage, Hong Kong engineers say amid government scepticism
Kwai Tsing container port 'outdated' and should be moved, study claims
Kwai Tsing container port needs more land not another terminal, report says
Kwai Tsing council rejects government's housing plans
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