Rent is due September 5 for all tenants.
Two tenants are evicted from their apartments after failing to pay rent for seven months and ignoring the Sheriff's posted warning. The management company provides professional movers to assist the tenant and to store any belongings until they have found a new apartment.
More tenants break from the "union" and offer to pay their back rent, including increases, so that they can stay in their apartments. Other tenants express interest in staying, but cannot afford to pay seven months of back rent at once.
The management company announced they were dismissing eviction proceedings against non-rent paying tenants, asking them to pay September rent and work out an interest-free payment plan for past due rent.
The striking tenants are behind five months in rent. After several court notices, some of the tenants ignore the order to vacate posted by the Sheriff.
Negotiations with the tenant union break down when the union's attorney, Elena Popp, demands that the management company pay her $250,000 in addition to restricting rent increases in the future. The management company refuses and disengages from negotiations with the union. Instead, the management company offers to resolve each case tenant-by-tenant.
Another tenant whose case has not yet gone to trial comes into the management office and pays all the past rent. The management company agrees to drop all eviction proceedings and allow the tenant to keep his apartment.
Sixteen cases are set for trial. In six of them, the tenants choose to move out of their apartment rather than face the risk of being evicted.
The management company prevails in six of the ten cases that go to trial. In four cases it is found that the tenants should be evicted because they refused to pay rent. In two others it is found that the tenants would have to pay the full rent as demanded by the management company to stay in the unit.
In only one case is the management company ordered to make any repairs at the Burlington Apartments.
Legal teams prepare for trial.
The Burlington Apartments are not rent-controlled, and the management company refuses to restrict its ability to raise rent in the future for a small group of tenants because it could no longer afford to forgo increases to cover the rising maintenance costs. Therefore, the management company initiates legal actions to remove the non-paying tenants.
Approximately 80 units refuse to pay rent.
The non-paying tenants, led by political activists, form a "union" and demand the right to collectively bargain for a smaller rent increase and for a limit against future rent increases.
Burlington Apartments tenants are notified of the of rent increases across all 190 units. Rent in one-bedroom units are raised to $1,300 and two-bedrooms units are raised to $1,675. New units in the buildings, however, rent for $100 to $200 more.
The current rents at the Burlington Apartments remain below the market-rate and are in line with the 2018 rate for subsidized housing owned by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
Local activists who do not live in the building hear about the rent increases and begin approaching tenants to encourage them not to pay rent in March.
To keep pace with rising costs, the management company decides to raise rents. The building manager performs a survey of the other buildings in the area to determine the market-rate for the neighborhood.
The survey finds that while many of the Burlington Apartments' tenants pay rates as low as $950 for one-bedroom apartments and $1,050 for two-bedroom apartments, one and two-bedroom apartments in the neighborhood rent from $1,500 to over $2,000 per month.
Since the residents of the Burlington Apartments' are working families living on a tight budget, the management company decides to only raise rents to a sustainable level for the buildings—not to the market rates in the neighborhood.


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Is Kathleen Sibelius Jewish?
No, Kathleen Sibelius is not a Jew. President Barack Obama's Secretary of Health and Human Services is Roman Catholic.
Sebelius was raised in a Roman Catholic family in Cincinnati, Ohio. She served for eight years as a representative in the Kansas Legislature, eight years as Insurance Commissioner and then was elected governor.
Sebelius is the daughter of former Ohio Governor Democrat John J. Gilligan -- the first father/daughter governor pair in the United States after her election.
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Starting Today My Book "God's Favorite Prayers" is in the New Kindle "Matchbook" Program
God's Favorite Prayers
If you buy a new print edition of this book (or purchased one in the past), you can buy the Kindle edition for FREE. Print edition purchase must be sold by Amazon. Learn more.
by Tzvee Zahavy at 10:27 PM Labels: archetypes, books, prayer, religion, synagogues, talmud No comments:
Are Paper Books Kosher?
Is owning dead-tree real-paper books kosher in this age of e-books? Some say no. Some say yes.
Andrew Couts does not exactly ask that question. But he does raise the issue of whether a person can defend his decision to amass what he calls a "book collection." I suppose a collection is less than a library.
As a professor of the humanities I accumulated a substantial library over the years. And I thought that action was defensible, even necessary. I "needed" to have all those books. Even though I wasn't living in the sticks and I had a major research library on my Big Ten campus, I needed to own eighteen bookcases worth of books. Those were my professional tools, and like a tradesman I could not just go and borrow tools every time I needed to work on a project.
On the Digital Trends site Couts frames the question of why we need to own all those paper-books in the context of the digital age. Why own paper when you can own the digital impulses of a book?
Couts opines mainly against real-paper book in, "Is there any reason to own paper books beside showing off? Not really."
Like some kind of sadomasochistic twit, I've moved houses three times in the past three years. Each of these moves reintroduced me to the symptom of insanity commonly known as a large book collection. The bulk of my household's possessions come in paperback and hardcover, you see – dozens of boxes and hundreds of pounds worth of pulp that take up more space in a moving truck than all of my furniture combined.
My book collection is a burden...
His points that follow are perceptive. Books are conspicuous egotistical objects, he says.
My book collection, I realized this weekend, is one of the few things in my home that makes me seem smart. Visitors step into my living room to see shelves and shelves of tomes – Hemingway, McCarthy, Kafka, Tolstoy, Franzen, Sedaris, Bukowski, Fitzgerald – each creased spine revealing more about my interests and intellect. At least, that's what my subconscious likes to believe. Just as vacation photographs show off where we've been, books show where our minds have traveled. They have, in other words, become little more than an elaborate way to brag.
He also reviews the reasons that we might give in defense of owning real books, saying, "...there are good reasons to prefer the old medium..."
For Couts that does not include the Shabbat prohibition of electrical devices that some Orthodox Jews observe. [I say "some" because recent reports claim that something like 50% of Orthodox kids use their phones to text on Shabbat. It is fair to assume that some of those kids also read online sites and maybe even ebooks on the holy day.]
It's not reasonable to assume that Orthodox authorities will suddenly decide to permit the use of ebooks on the Sabbath. Orthodox practices change slowly, if at all. In the near term, if you are an observant Orthodox Jew who wants to read your "collection" on the Seventh Day, it will have to be a paper library, not a digital one.
Bottom line: If you are Orthodox (modest or egotistical), or if you are just plain egotistical and like to brag (Orthodox or not), you will want to have your paper books arrayed in book cases around your house, because they don't just make you look smart. They make you look pious too.
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Times: Four out of Five Americans Believe in Angels
I no longer give any credence to surveys about religion.
According to surveys, eighty percent of Americans believe in angels.
Conjuring Up Our Own Gods
By T. M. LUHRMANN
BIG SUR, Calif. — "AMERICANS are obsessed with the supernatural," Jeffrey J. Kripal, a scholar of religion, told me here at Esalen, an institute dedicated to the idea that "we are all capable of the extraordinary."
Surveys support this. In 2011, an Associated Press poll found that 8 in 10 Americans believed in angels — even 4 in 10 people who never went to church. In 2009 the Pew Research Center reported that 1 in 5 Americans experienced ghosts and 1 in 7 had consulted a psychic. In 2005, Gallup found that 3 out of 4 Americans believed in something paranormal, and that 4 in 10 said that houses could be haunted...
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What are the Agunah Chronicles?
What is "The Agunah Chronicles"? I know what "The Vagina Monologues" is. It's an episodic play written by Eve Ensler which ran off broadway.
"The Agunah Chronicles" is a supposed "forthcoming book" that does not appear on Amazon when you do a search for it.
Don't you just cringe when someone makes claims about a "forthcoming book" that are not verifiable and they get that published in the Times?
Anyhow, "The Agunah Chronicles" "authors" wrote a letter to the New York Times . Here is what appeared in the Times:
The scandalous situation of kidnapping and torturing recalcitrant husbands who withhold a Jewish divorce, a "get," from their wives is a result of the Orthodox rabbinate's failure to use the compassionate and creative solutions long available under Jewish law to free women from dead marriages ("U.S. Accuses 2 Rabbis of Kidnapping Husbands for a Fee," news article, Oct. 11).
Pious agunot, women desperate to be free of their husbands, many of whom are violent, criminals or pedophiles, are vulnerable to corrupt rabbis who tell them that yielding to extortion or torturing their husbands is the only way they can ever be free to remarry and raise a family.
Opportunistic thugs, sometimes mythologized as heroes, run amok because mainstream Orthodox rabbis insist that even violent and degenerate husbands retain control over their wives. Every rabbi who fails to use the peaceful avenues available under Jewish law to free agunot opens the way for this shocking disgrace of the Jewish community.
SUSAN ARANOFF
RIVKA HAUT
Brooklyn, Oct. 11, 2013
The writers are co-authors of the forthcoming book "The Agunah Chronicles," a nonfiction account of helping agunot struggle for freedom in rabbinical courts in the United States.
I don't think the thugs who beat up the husbands are the "corrupt rabbis" here. It's the other ones -- those who deny a woman the right to divorce her husband. But let's not quibble. Anyway... where can I order the so-called "forthcoming book"?
UPDATE: I'M TOLD BY A FRIEND THAT I OVERSIMPLIFIED THIS PROBLEM AND MY VIEWS ARE MARGINALIZED.
I said in reply: Thanks for your assessment but on the contrary, the opposite is the truth. My view is mainstream.
Each day that rabbis claim this is a complicated problem that has no easy solution, they marginalize themselves and the orthodox community even more from the rest of the Jewish world and from the rest of the civilized societies of the world.
It is time to accept that women have the right to divorce their husbands and to enact that as our process and stop the marginalization of Judaism.
My hope is that now - after the publicity of the current scandal - civil courts will actively intervene in the process and issue instructions that a woman be given a divorce by rabbinic authority. And there are rabbis who will do just that, thus, by the intervention of the civil authorities, ending the current oppressive system.
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Is Cory Booker Jewish?
Shmuley Boteach wrote a nice op-ed in the Bergen Record about Senator Cory Booker's spirituality. Booker comes off as quite a character.
Booker is a Baptist, but his religious views are broad and pluralistic as described by Dan Gilgoff at US News.
So no, Cory Booker is not a Jew; he is not Jewish. But he is tangled up in Jews, the Bible, and throws around quotations of Hebrew sources, thanks in part to Rabbi Shmuley, according to Shmuley's account of the matter. Here's part of the story from the op-ed.
When he shared with me just a few mornings ago the sad news that his father, Cary, to whom he was particularly devoted, had passed away, Cory expressed his desire to travel together to the grave of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Schneerson, to pray and light a candle for his father's eternal soul. It was the final days of the campaign and another politician could scarcely have afforded the trip in the middle of the night to the Queens cemetery. But a vigil for his father was the priority and I will never forget watching him recite his father's beloved Psalm 121, slowly and deliberately, enunciating each and every word: "I lift up my eyes to the mountains — whence does my salvation come … from the Lord, Maker of heaven and earth. The Lord watches over you… He will keep you from all harm… He will watch over your coming and going, both now and forevermore."
I asked him if it pained him that his father, a warm and gentle man who took great pride in his son's service, had missed seeing him become a senator by just a few days. "I believe he can see me, Shmuley. He sees me even now."
Odd, you say? Hey, it's New Jersey where by state law everybody has to have a shtick.
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Is Mark Cuban Jewish?
Yes, Mark Cuban is a Jew. He owns the Dallas Mavericks NBA basketball team -- winners of the 2011 NBA championship.
Cuban's Russian Jewish grandparents changed the family name from Chopininski or Chabenisky when they immigrated to America. Cuban grew up in Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh in a working class family.
In September 2002, Cuban married Tiffany Stewart, an advertising executive (who likely is not Jewish) in a private ceremony in Barbados.
The billionaire entrepreneur was charged in 2008 by the SEC with insider trading in what appeared to be a weak case.
Update: Case was dismissed but it can be refiled by the SEC (7/2009).
Update 2: Cuban is going after the SEC for malicious prosecution and has been granted discovery by the court (12/2009).
Update 3: Cuban on trial for insider trading September 2013.
Update 4: 10/16/2013 - a jury cleared Cuban of wrongdoing, making Mr. Cuban a winner in the civil case and delivering a blow to the federal agency that he battled tooth and nail for five years.
by Tzvee Zahavy at 10:21 PM Labels: are-they-jewish?, money, politics, sports No comments:
Tasers and Stun Guns: How Rabbis Modernized the Orthodox Divorce Process in America
Many of the high-profile news stories about how Orthodox Rabbis were arrested for plotting to force a recalcitrant husband to divorce his wife unfairly portray Orthodox practice as primitive.
Nothing could be further from the truth. For centuries Orthodox rabbis have been modernizing divorces in America. Those biased news stories omitted the account of how much the divorce process has progressed in America.
Going back to early colonial days -- if a husband refused to issue a divorce his wife rabbis had to resort to hot cattle prods applied to private areas of the husband's body. That was messy and left marks.
But, after Ben Franklin's invention in 1749 rabbis immediately modernized the technology of the divorce processes. They were able to connect the recalcitrant husband's privates to a lightning rod. That was a significant technology upgrade to the divorce process. However rabbis still had to wait for a thunderstorm to get a divorce decree from an uncooperative husband.
After the technological innovations of the late 19th century, when electric utilities became commonplace, rabbis modernized their processes again. Divorces could be obtained at any time by connecting up wires pluggged in to the wall to the husband's testicles. However even with that astounding modernization, all the parties still had to be near a power source, and that was somewhat limiting.
In the 20th century rabbis modernized divorce processes again by adopting in the 1940's the electric cattle prod and the stun gun to deliver an electrical shock -- anywhere and anytime -- to the genitals to persuade a husband to issue a divorce.
Rabbis continued to modernize in recent years by adding the taser to their arsenal in the 1970s. The rabbis indicted last week (10/2013) in New York and New Jersey were promising to use the most up-to-date stun guns, cattle prods and tasers available in America.
As you can see from the history of the technological innovations that rabbis have made, it is simply a case of media bias to wrongly characterize up-to-date Orthodox rabbinic divorce processes as backwards or primitive.
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Was JFK a Conservative and Jewish?
Was JFK a Jew? Was he a conservative?
No JFK was not Jewish. He was Catholic.
No historians have long professed that JFK was not a political conservative. He was a liberal.
Though JFK was not a Jew, in a new book, Ira Stoll provides us with some new pro-Jewish credentials for JFK, summarized by him in a JTA article.
Stoll's controversial revisionist thesis in this new book is that JFK was a political conservative because he was anti-communist and pro-business. The publisher contends:
As Ira Stoll convincingly argues, by the standards of both his time and our own, John F. Kennedy was a conservative. His two great causes were anticommunism and economic growth. His tax cuts, which spurred one of the greatest economic booms in our history, were fiercely opposed by his more liberal advisers. He fought against unions. He pushed for free trade and a strong dollar. And above all, he pushed for a military buildup and an aggressive anticommunism around the world. Indeed, JFK had more in common with Ronald Reagan than with LBJ.
Not every Republican is a true heir to Kennedy, but hardly any Democrats deserve that mantle. JFK, Conservative is sure to appeal to conservative readers — and will force liberals to reconsider one of their icons.
We leave it to the professional historians to judge the validity of this sure-to-sell-books-thesis.
Hat tip to Barak for bringing this to my attention.
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My Fifteen Minutes of Swim Fame with Diana Nyad
Wednesday night (10/9/2013) I swam with celebrity endurance swimmer Diana Nyad for fifteen minutes in a specially built 2-lane 40-yard pool in front of Macy's on Herald Square in New York City. (If you do not know who she is - read about her here.)
Nyad was garnering publicity for Proctor and Gamble, who sponsored her 48-hour in pool endurance swim, and she was raising money for Sandy Relief and she was getting a pool-load of promotion for herself. And that is totally okay, in fact it is highly admired part of the American way of life to be an entrepreneur like that.
Now it's not as if I was the only person in the city to swim with her. Richard Simmons and Ryan Lochte and other celebrities and a whole bunch of common people swam with her.
Now you ask, how did I get this swimming honor? Did Diana read my book, "God's Favorite Prayers" and say to her staff, go see if you can convince Rabbi Tzvee to swim with me? Did Ms. Nyad read my essay, "Hudson River Diary" about my swim struggle in the New York Triathlon and feel the need to induce me into yet another swimming challenge?
No and no. I am a common person, not a celebrity. This opportunity came to me in parts by chance, by timing, by the good efforts of my wonderful friend who found out that I could do this and sent me the link to apply and by my love of swimming and by my continued chutzpah.
On the Swim with Diana Application Form it asked and I answered:
Briefly, tell us why would you like to swim in the Nyad #SwimForRelief?:
Diana inspires me. I identify with her dedication. I am a rabbi who swims 1.5 miles every day. I swam in the NYC triathlon in the Hudson this summer. Like Diana, I swam 100 miles this summer too - but it took me all summer.
And they wrote back right away that I'm in and gave me a great time-slot in which to swim.
And how did it feel? What was it like to swim with a celebrity at Herald Square? I'm told it was really cool. And it was deemed cool by all objective measures by my friends and family members who came to cheer me on.
But I felt that this was a delightfully strange thing to be doing. And in the pool, when it came my turn, Diana had been swimming for 35 hours. Up close, when I got in and looked at her, she looked really tired. She had just put on some insulating swimwear to keep her warm even though the pool was heated to 82 degrees. The air was 55 and there was a night chill around us.
Before we started to swim on schedule at exactly 8:10 PM, her assistant told her to say hello to me and she did say hello. So I said, "I'm Tzvee." I think she said, I'm Diana, and I said I know that.
She swam really slowly. I had a hard time keeping from swimming ahead of her. Then after one lap of 40 yards, she turned on her back and she started to kick. I did a really slow backstroke. We did this back and forth for 6 or 8 more times. At some point she stopped to get an inhaler from her assistants and they tried to feed her a spoonful of yogurt. I stopped too. I felt it would be rude if I kept swimming while she was pausing.
This was a painstakingly slow swim. And yes. It was cool, like no other event I've ever been in. We raised money for charity. We marketed products. We entertained New York and we continued to promote Diana's story of inspiration - that a 64 year old woman could endure an incredible 100 mile swim.
So that was my so-called-cool Fifteen Minutes of Swim Fame with Diana Nyad.
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To Raise Money for Sandy Relief Tzvee Will Swim With Diana Nyad in Herald Square - Please Help
I'm swimming 8 PM Wednesday night 10/9/2013 at Herald Square in NYC with Diana Nyad to raise money for Sandy relief.
Please make a donation to sponsor our efforts.
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Diana Nyad wrote -
48 Hour Swim for Hurricane Sandy Recovery via AmeriCares
To mark the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad - fresh off her landmark swim from Cuba to Florida - helps power disaster recovery efforts through a 48-hour test of mental, physical and emotional endurance: the Nyad Swim for Relief. With the strength and support of P&G brands at her side, Diana Nyad swims for 48 continuous hours in the heart of New York City to raise funds for the AmeriCares Hurricane Sandy Relief Fund.
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The Nyad Swim for Relief reflects the emotional and mental strength it takes to overcome adversity and restore a sense of normalcy to lives disrupted by disasters. P&G brands Duracell, Tide and Secret are underwriting all production costs for the Nyad Swim for Relief, maximizing the donated funds that directly support Sandy recovery activities. In the months following Hurricane Sandy, AmeriCares distributed more than $6.4 million in aid to help survivors, including $3.5 million for medicines and relief supplies and $2.9 million in grants to community organizations providing services such as storm clean-up and mental health counseling. And the recovery efforts continue with so many storm survivors still in need of help.
Hurricane Sandy caused approximately $70 billion in damage across the Eastern seaboard, destroying 12,500 homes in New Jersey alone. To-date, in Ocean County, NJ, more than 25,000 residents are still displaced from their homes and in New York FEMA has again extended its deadline for Transitional Sheltering Assistance -- demonstrating the continued need for these recovery efforts.
A 40-yard, two-lane pool is installed in Herald Square for the event, allowing the public to witness Diana's incredible display of perseverance while learning about AmeriCares important work of rebuilding lives.
Make a donation to AmeriCares Sandy Relief Fund.
Share the word with friends and family about this important event and fundraising effort (social media links are located above) and encourage them to join in.
Cheer on Diana by sending words of encouragement using the hashtag #SwimForRelief. Submissions may be showcased at the pool, shared with media and featured across Nyad Swim for Relief activities.
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Google Glass Joins Caribbean Islanders with Orthodox Hasidic Jews in Crown Heights Brooklyn
Google Glass will change the nature of communications in many ways. Here is an early example.
From the Daily News:
Brooklyn filmmakers (Mendy Seldowitz, Celso White, Ben Millstein and Hannah Roodman) are using Google Glass technology to document long-standing tensions in Crown Heights. Project 2x1 is using the new technology to show what life is like for Caribbean Islanders and Hasidic Jews
Four Brooklyn filmmakers are seeing Crown Heights through rose-colored Google Glass. They employed the newfangled technology to tease out longstanding tensions between the neighborhood's primary inhabitants.
The four 20-somethings behind Project 2x1 used the camera-equipped glasses to show what life is like for the Caribbean islanders and Orthodox Hasidic Jews who live there.
The mission: "To bring two distinct communities together to form one united neighborhood," said Hannah Roodman, the project's director and producer.
The product: A short film that depicts scenes from everyday life — including scenes in a barbershop, a synagogue and the annual West Indian Day Parade — most filmed with a small camera attached to different faces.
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JStandard: My Dear Rabbi Talmudic Advice Column for October: Charity Fraud and Rote Recitations
Published in The Jewish Standard: Dear Rabbi. Your Talmudic Advice Column
Dear Rabbi,
I am a generally charitable person. After services one weekday evening this summer, I gave some money to a poor-looking middle-aged woman, a shnorrer who was standing begging outside of my shul. By chance I then walked from the shul behind her. After following her for about five blocks, I saw the woman get into a red Porsche sports car and drive away. I've been wondering ever since then whether by giving her money I fulfilled the mitzvah of tzedakah.
Trying to be Charitable in Teaneck
Dear Charitable,
Sadly it's highly probable that you did not fulfill any mitzvah by giving that woman money. Sure, I could imagine a scenario wherein she was a truly indigent person who borrowed a fancy car from a benefactor to drive to Teaneck to beg for charity. But that story is a total stretch. In this case it is nearly certain that you gave an outright gift to stranger who was not particularly in need.
Of course, there's nothing wrong with doing that. But no matter what your charitable intention was in that act, I'd say that you did not accomplish tzedakah. And when you saw her get into that swanky car, you correctly must have felt that you had been scammed.
In giving charity to an individual you make an all or nothing gesture. If the person is needy, all of the money you have given goes directly to helping him or her. If the person is dishonest, you have lost your chance to do any good.
If you want to perform a true act of personal tzedakah to help a person in genuine need, apparently you have to be more careful. You will have to balance your trust in the basic honesty of your fellow human beings with some suspicion that others may be deceitful or corrupt.
Most of the time in cases of doubt you can rely on the rule of the majority – the assumption that most people act sincerely. In the case of your question, you followed the woman and unintentionally you clarified the details of her status, and by so doing you removed it from the pool where the preponderance of situations would have classified your generous act as "charity."
Related to your question, you no doubt know that we have more than one means to accomplish that aim of being prudent in your charitable giving in our community . As an example, I recommend the Jewish Family Services of Bergen County (www.jfsbergen.org), as one target for your donations. It is an excellent upright organization, with which I have been involved with for many years.
By making a gift to such an agency, you will benefit from the judgment and expertise of trained the social service professionals who run it, under the supervision of a dedicated and distinguished independent board of directors.
I can vouch that when you give to a charity like JFS you can be highly certain that your intended charitable donation will go to assisting people in need, and not into paying to fill the gas tank of a pretender's Porsche 911 sports car.
Realize, though, that even a highly visible public agency can be susceptible to corruption. The recent disturbing news about the theft of more than $5 million over a span of twenty-one years from the Metropolitan New York Council on Jewish Poverty gives us pause for concern.
Of course, we do want to live our lives permeated by trust. As you learned though, we need to intermix some measures of skepticism and judiciousness into it.
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Are Christmas Trees Kosher?
A Christmas tree is not an edible food, so the rules of kosher and treif do not apply to it. Surprisingly, a new study shows that the fact is that some 32% of US Jews, especially those married to Christians have trees. In my father's generation they jokingly would say they had Hanukkah Bushes. They don't say that much anymore.
A Christmas tree ordinarily in the US is an evergreen. There is nothing inherently wrong with having one in your house or outside of your house. It is unlikely that early Christians in Israel had pine trees in their homes on Christmas, since those trees are not numerous in the Holy Land.
But contemporary Christians attribute religious significance to a Christmas tree, and most rabbis will discourage or forbid Jews from having them in their homes. In addition for the average Jew, there is a psychological barrier to having a Christmas tree.
And we have the latest incredible credible 32% statistics from the Pew study of Jews in America, "A Portrait of Jewish Americans". One number that jumps out for me is that 4% of modern Orthodox Jews have Christmas trees.
Jewlicious picked out the salient quote from the study:
Page 80: About a third of Jews (32%) say they had a Christmas tree in their home last year, including 27% of Jews by religion and 51% of Jews of no religion. Erecting a Christmas tree is especially common among Jews who are married to non-Jews; 71% of this group says they put up a tree last year. Compared with younger Jews, those 65 and older are somewhat less likely to have had a Christmas tree last year. And relatively few Orthodox Jews, including just 1% of UltraOrthodox Jews (and 4% of Modern Orthodox), say there was a Christmas tree in their home last year. Attending non-Jewish religious services is an infrequent occurrence for U.S. Jews; just 15% say they do this at least a few times a year.
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Total Brown Paper Security Solution
Seen on Northern Boulevard in Queens.
Spy Source: Total Security Solutions Company
Do they Guarantee the Opacity of Their Brown Paper Security Solution?
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Road Warrior Quotes Tzvee: Glare, Shmare!
I was quoted By JOHN CICHOWSKI, ROAD WARRIOR COLUMNIST, in the Bergen Record, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2013, Road Warrior: New Fort Lee high-rise blinds drivers. His article is about glare, and starts off as follows, "As they move through Fort Lee, eastbound drivers approaching the George Washington Bridge just before sundown can't help but bathe uncomfortably in the intense glow of the dazzling glass tower that's slowly reaching into the sky...."
He liked what I brought to his attention, having by chance read the news about a London tower a few weeks earlier ("...the owner of a luxury Jaguar XJ, said Monday the blistering beam of light melted the panels on his car in just one hour."):
"Glare, shmare!" said Teaneck's Tzvee Zahavy. "In London, the reflected sun off the new Walkie Talkie skyscraper is so hot that it melts cars and fries eggs."
True enough. British media reports said extensive glazing was used on the sweeping curvature of the 37-story London building to maximize its views. As a result, the sun's rays were magnified so much that they warped the panels of at least two parked cars — a Jaguar and a van. Witnesses said the damage was accompanied by the smell of burning plastic.
"Every bit of plastic on the left-hand side and everything on the dashboard has melted," said the van owner.
But none of the reflected sunlight from The Modern in Fort Lee approaches the hideous intensity of the Walkie Talkie in London, where the sun in early fall beats directly on the building for two hours or more. The glare from the high-rise on the Jersey side of the Hudson generally lasts several minutes at most.
And unlike the enormous engineering challenges posed by the Walkie Talkie, the Fort Lee mayor believes The Modern may one day elude the sun's rays altogether.
"This is only the first building being built for this project," Sokolich noted. "There's more to come, so I think the sun won't get through."...
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Home Music Being Human An Interview With Calum Scott
Being Human An Interview With Calum Scott
Photo: Frank Ockenfels
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Even if you are not a fan of TV talent show competitions, sometimes they get it right and manage to introduce an artist who is worthy of your attention. Calum Scott, who was a finalist on Britain's Got Talent (he finished sixth) is one such example. A blue-eyed soul singer in the mold of Sam Smith, Scott's exquisite reimagining of Robyn's "Dancing on My Own" as a ballad hinted at his great taste in music. That song, as well as a reading of Bob Dylan's "Not Dark Yet" can both be found of Scott's full-length debut album Only Human (Capitol). In addition to being indicative of his interpretation skills, they also demonstrate his vocal abilities – the guy can sing! Scott's also a decent songwriter, as you can hear on the Leona Lewis duet "You Are the Reason" and the rhythmic "Give Me Something". Currently on a US concert tour, Scott was gracious enough to take the time to answer a few questions.
You first crossed most people's radar when you competed on season nine of Britain's Got Talent on which you performed a ballad version of Robyn's "Dancing on My Own". Please tell the readers why you chose that song.
I'm a fan of Robyn's. I love all the music she put out. Obviously, "Dancing on My Own" is one of those songs that is super-relatable. We all know what unrequited love feels like. I was a fan of that song way before the audition. On the path to discovering my own voice, I had come across a ballad version of the song. Kind of without thinking, I remembered the lyrics to the song and pressed (the) record (button) on the little home studio that I built. It felt so honest. Another thing I did was not change the pronouns. It came from the perspective of myself, a gay man who was desperate for love, and always seemed to be falling in love with the straight guy [laughs]. Not only did I personally relate to the song, but in my rendition, I tried to make it my own. I think, in a ballad version, where you strip away the beat and the production that makes you want to dance around, you can hear how heartbreaking the song is. It jumped out and hit me in the chest, really, because I personally related to it. It made sense. I remember recording it and playing it for my mom and my sister. I knew I had found something very powerful.
Have you met Robyn and, if so, do you know what she thinks of your rendition?
I haven't managed to meet her! It's like a dream of mine. Being in the industry now, I get it. It's very busy and you don't have a minute to sit down. We haven't connected in that way. But, when I was writing in Sweden, I was lucky enough to meet up with Patrik Berger who was the songwriter on "Dancing on My Own" with Robyn. I said to him, "I really want to know what Robyn thinks of it". He said he has spoken to her and that she loves it and thinks it's great. Thank God! I would hate it if she hated it [laughs].
You included the Tiesto mix of "Dancing on My Own" on your debut album Only Human. Was that done as a nod to Robyn and the original version?
Yes, of course. I pay tribute to Robyn all the time. Every time I post about the song, I always include her. She's an incredible songwriter who not only helped so many people with the way she sang the song, but she affected me in a way that allowed me to retell the story. It just shows you the power of songwriting. I wanted to make sure the song was on my album. The way that Tiesto put the song back into production similar to Robyn's, it's come full circle. I want to give thanks to him as well for putting me under people's noses who may never have heard the ballad, reintroducing me and Robyn to a whole new audience. I'm a very grateful person.
Excluding the Robyn and beautiful Bob Dylan covers, you co-wrote the remaining 11 songs on the album. How would you describe your role in the songwriting process?
When I first started writing music, which wasn't so long after (appearing on) Britain's Got Talent, probably in September 2015, I was writing songs about going to the clubs and partying [laughs]. All the things I expected people wanted to hear. You listen to the radio and you hear all these feel-good songs. I guess that's what I thought songwriting was, writing for the people. It wasn't until I started writing personal and honest songs about my childhood, the issues I had with my sexuality growing up, all that kind of stuff; when I started writing about that, suddenly it made sense. I started to write more sensitive songs. Some of the songs I've written are anthems for people struggling with their own sexuality. It's a huge privilege to be able to help people with what I went through, the similar circumstances. I would say my role in the writing of this album was integral. I wrote songs that were honest because I wanted to relate to my audience. I still consider myself a very normal guy who experiences emotions like everybody else, has my heart broken like everybody else. Part of the success of this story is because I'm still very normal and relatable. With this album, I wanted to make it the same as that and reflect who I am as a person. Coming from a Human Resources job, I had an opportunity to write an album that could be my only album. I wanted to make something that was a reflection of who I was and an album that I could stand by and say, "This is my story. It's no smoke and mirrors. It's just me."
We hope that there are more albums to come.
If people will have me, I will make albums until I can no longer make them. I'm going to stick around for a little while.
The album closes with a duet version of "You Are the Reason" on which you sing with Leona Lewis. What was it about Leona that made you want to sing a duet with her?
She's a superstar, first and foremost; from her personality to her singing capabilities. We were introduced organically; Leona and I have both worked with a very prolific songwriter in America called Diane Warren. Diane had emailed me to say she had just worked with Leona on this duet and that we would be perfect together; two Brits. She said, "Let me introduce you". We were introduced by email and I was like, "Oh, my God, I just got an email from Leona Lewis" [laughs]. I emailed back and she sent me some of the stuff she had been working on. I sent her "You Are the Reason" and asked her what she thought of it. She said, "This is beautiful. Can I be a part of it?" Hell yes [laughs]! My A&R sent her the song and she sent it back. I was picking my jaw up from the floor. I'm in awe of her. To watch Leona on her journey and see her become a superstar around the world and then for her to be singing one of my songs, it was a very emotional and surreal moment.
In the last couple of weeks, I've been to concerts by Culture Club and Erasure. As a gay artist, would you consider Boy George and Andy Bell to be influences?
Yes, of course! I was actually just watching a documentary on Freddie Mercury. In the same vain with those guys, it wasn't necessarily spoken about as openly as now. We've come to a really good time in the world where more and more people are speaking out about the issues we have in the community. Those issues are becoming less and less. Unfortunately, they do still exist in some places and religions. We will get there, I think. People like Boy George and Freddie Mercury and George Michael, artists like those, contributed to the movement for people to be educated and understand that the LGBT community is exactly the same as everybody else. Love is love. That's why I wrote the songs that I did for my album. It was terrifying for me write some of the songs about my sexuality because I had suppressed it for such a long time. Being in the Northeast of England, being abandoned by friends when I told them. I really had it rough. Alongside that, Sam Smith and Troye Sivan and all these other artists that are keeping that conversation alive about LGBT issues moves the world forward. Music is the language of the universe, I feel. It can translate how we feel through music. Boy George, in his image and music, did make that movement more powerful. We're not going anywhere!
You are currently on a US concert tour. What can people who attend your show expect to experience?
I had my very first show last night, which felt incredible! It was with Pentatonix here in Salt Lake City. As the opening act, I performed in front of about 8,000 people. I was really nervous. I didn't expect the kind of welcome that I got. It was the best feeling ever. My face was aching by the end from smiling so much. Like my album, people can expect very honest and raw songs. I've stripped it back to just me and a piano. The message will be plain as day to hear. As you can tell, I don't stop talking [laughs]. I refer to my songs and give a bit of a story about each one. People are going to hear a little bit about me as an artist and a person and the songs that I have created as the person I am today. It's privilege to be able to be in front of such an incredible crowd and to tell my story.
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La Cinémathèque d'images de montagne, en abrégé la CIM, est un fonds d'archive des films amateurs et de documentaires professionnels sur l'alpinisme et la montagne, principalement français. Elle est située à Gap (département des Hautes-Alpes, France) et constituée sous la forme d'une association loi de 1901.

Historique
La cinémathèque est créée en 1996, sous la responsabilité de Gilles Charensol.

Fonds
Les fonds sont constitués de films amateurs et de documentaires professionnels relatifs à la montagne : sports de montagne, aménagement du territoire (par exemple, un film évoque la construction du barrage de Serre-Ponçon) et vie quotidienne en montagne. Les sports concernés vont des traditionnels alpinisme et skis (ski alpin, de fond, etc.), aux courses en chien de traîneau, en passant par les sports d'eau vive comme le rafting ou le canoë-kayak.

Ils sont généralement, mais pas exclusivement, tournés en France ou par des alpinistes français.

En juillet 2013, le fonds comprenait  et  films conservés. En 2010, le fonds disposait de  films.

Plusieurs alpinistes professionnels français ont déposé des fonds :
 René Desmaison, alpiniste français, né le 14 avril à Bourdeilles et mort en 2007. Il était un alpiniste de haut niveau et a notamment escaladé les Alpes, l'Himalaya et les Andes ;
 Patrick Vallençant, né le 9 juin 1946 à Lyon et mort accidentellement en 1989. Skieur et alpiniste français, pionnier du ski alpin ;
 Guido Magnone, né le 22 février 1917 à Turin en Italie et mort en 2012. Alpiniste et sculpteur français. Après ses études artistiques à l'école des beaux-arts, il découvre la montagne et devient rapidement l'un des meilleurs grimpeurs de sa génération ;
 Lionel Terray, alpiniste français né le 25 juillet 1921 à Grenoble et mort en 1965 aux arêtes du Gerbier dans le massif du Vercors (France). En 1950, il participa à l'expédition française dans l'Annapurna, première conquête d'un sommet de plus de . L'un de ses films est Les danses de Tami, tourné dans l'Himalaya, qui évoque la vie et les mœurs des Sherpas.

Micheline Rambaud, cinéaste de l'expédition féminine de 1959 au Népal, a confié à la Cinémathèque d'images de montagne la numérisation et la diffusion de son film Voyage sans retour qui en retrace le déroulement.

Les personnes dépositaires gardent la jouissance de l'entièreté de leurs droits d'auteur.

Événements
Des projections itinérantes sont organisées sur les départements des Hautes-Alpes et des Alpes-de-Haute-Provence.

Depuis 2006, les « Mercredis du Royal » proposent des soirées sur le thème de la montagne à l'espace culturel du Royal à Gap.

La Cinémathèque d'images de montagne et la maison de la montagne de Grenoble coorganisent depuis 2009 les rencontres du cinéma de montagne au Quattro à Gap. La cinquième édition en 2013 réunit  personnes sur les trois jours de projection.

Notes et références

 Autres sources

 Le Dauphiné libéré, jeudi 13 février 2014
 Le Dauphiné libéré, 18 mai 2013
 Le Dauphiné libéré, 19 juillet 2010
 Alpes et Midi, 25 juin 2010
 Le Dauphiné libéré, jeudi 22 avril 1999

Liens externes
 Site officiel

Association ou organisme ayant son siège en Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Association ou organisme lié au cinéma
Association ou organisme lié à l'alpinisme ou à l'escalade
Cinémathèque en France

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package org.dromelvan.struts2;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

import org.dromelvan.modell.Anvandare;
import org.dromelvan.modell.DeByteOmgang;
import org.dromelvan.modell.Deltagare;
import org.dromelvan.modell.Sasong;
import org.dromelvan.modell.Spelare;
import org.dromelvan.modell.SpelareSasong;
import org.dromelvan.modell.SpelareSasongStatistik;
import org.dromelvan.modell.TillgangligSpelare;
import org.dromelvan.modell.persistence.TillgangligSpelareDAO;
import org.dromelvan.modell.util.collections.SpelareSasongStatistikSorter;
import org.dromelvan.struts2.util.TillgangligSpelareStatistik;

import com.opensymphony.xwork2.validator.annotations.ConversionErrorFieldValidator;

public class DeltagareSpelarTrupp extends SpelarTrupp<org.dromelvan.modell.statistik.spelartrupp.DeltagareSpelarTrupp> {

    /**
	 *
	 */
	private static final long serialVersionUID = 1387007215920144133L;
	private int deltagareId;
    private int kolumn = SpelareSasongStatistikSorter.POSITION;

    @ConversionErrorFieldValidator(message = "Felaktigt format på deltagareId.")
    public int getDeltagareId() {
        return deltagareId;
    }
    public void setDeltagareId(int deltagareId) {
        this.deltagareId = deltagareId;
    }

    @ConversionErrorFieldValidator(message = "Felaktigt format på kolumn.")
    public int getKolumn() {
        return kolumn;
    }
    public void setKolumn(int kolumn) {
        this.kolumn = kolumn;
    }

    public Deltagare getDeltagare() {
        return getDeltagareSpelarTrupp().getDeltagare();
    }

    public org.dromelvan.modell.statistik.spelartrupp.DeltagareSpelarTrupp getDeltagareSpelarTrupp() {
        return getSpelarTrupp();
    }

    public double getKvarstaendeTransferBudget() {
        int summa = getTransferBudget() - (int)(getSpelarTrupp().getPris() * 10.0);
        return summa / 10.0;
    }

    public double getStorstaBud() {
        if(getSpelarTrupp().getAntalSpelare() == 11) {
            return 0.0;
        }

        int summa = getTransferBudget() - (int)(getSpelarTrupp().getPris() * 10.0);
        if(summa > 0) {
            summa -= (10 - getSpelarTrupp().getAntalSpelare()) * getMinstaBud();
        }
        return summa / 10.0;
    }

    protected org.dromelvan.modell.statistik.spelartrupp.DeltagareSpelarTrupp skapaSpelarTrupp(Sasong sasong) {
        Deltagare deltagare = getDAOFactory().getDeltagareDAO().findById(getDeltagareId());
        List<SpelareSasong> spelareSasonger = getDAOFactory().getSpelareSasongDAO().findByDeltagareOchSasong(deltagare, sasong);
        org.dromelvan.modell.statistik.spelartrupp.DeltagareSpelarTrupp deltagareSpelarTrupp = new org.dromelvan.modell.statistik.spelartrupp.DeltagareSpelarTrupp(deltagare,sasong,spelareSasonger);
        deltagareSpelarTrupp.sortSpelareSasongStatistik(getKolumn());
        return deltagareSpelarTrupp;
    }

    public boolean getHarTransferListadeSpelare() {
        return !getTransferListadeSpelare().isEmpty();
    }

    public List<TillgangligSpelareStatistik> getTransferListadeSpelare() {
        Anvandare anvandare = getAnvandare();
        List<TillgangligSpelare> tillgangligaSpelare = new ArrayList<TillgangligSpelare>();
        List<TillgangligSpelareStatistik> tillgangligSpelareStatistik = new ArrayList<TillgangligSpelareStatistik>();

        if(anvandare.isAdministrator() || getDeltagare().equals(anvandare.getDeltagare())) {
            DeByteOmgang deByteOmgang = getDeByteOmgang();
            if(deByteOmgang != null && deByteOmgang.getStatus() == 0) {
                TillgangligSpelareDAO tillgangligSpelareDAO = getDAOFactory().getTillgangligSpelareDAO();
                tillgangligaSpelare = tillgangligSpelareDAO.findByDeByteOmgangOchDeltagare(deByteOmgang, getDeltagare());

                Map<Spelare,SpelareSasongStatistik> spelareSasongStatistikMap = new HashMap<Spelare,SpelareSasongStatistik>();
                for(SpelareSasongStatistik spelareSasongStatistik : getDeByteOmgang().getDeOmgang().getTavling().getSasong().getSpelareSasongStatistik()) {
                    spelareSasongStatistikMap.put(spelareSasongStatistik.getSpelare(), spelareSasongStatistik);
                }

                for(TillgangligSpelare tillgangligSpelare : tillgangligaSpelare) {
                    TillgangligSpelareStatistik statistik = new TillgangligSpelareStatistik();
                    statistik.setTillgangligSpelare(tillgangligSpelare);
                    statistik.setSpelareSasongStatistik(spelareSasongStatistikMap.get(tillgangligSpelare.getSpelare()));
                    // Tidigare säsonger kan det ha slunkit med någon spelare som inte spelat alls och inte har någon
                    // registrerad säsonginfo
                    if(statistik.getSpelareSasongStatistik() != null) {
                        tillgangligSpelareStatistik.add(statistik);
                    }
                }
            }
        }
        Collections.sort(tillgangligSpelareStatistik);
        return tillgangligSpelareStatistik;
    }

    public DeByteOmgang getDeByteOmgang() {
        Sasong sasong = getDAOFactory().getSasongDAO().findById(getDefaultSasongId());
        List<DeByteOmgang> deByteOmgangList = getDAOFactory().getDeByteOmgangDAO().findBySasong(sasong);
        Collections.sort(deByteOmgangList);
        if(deByteOmgangList.isEmpty()) {
            return null;
        }
        return deByteOmgangList.get(0);
    }

}

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University save best form for Cup!
Women's Football News 10 Feb 2015
Teams can sometimes be known as 'cup specialists' but University of Kent have taken this to extremes in the South East Counties League this season.
In the Kent County Division, the university side are at the foot of the table having lost all eleven league matches this season but their form has been a complete contrast in the Kent Divisional League Cup.
Having beaten Anchorians 3rds in the previous rounds, University of Kent then proceeded to beat Barming - who are second in the table - 3-2 in the semi finals on Sunday.
Bethany Nobes scored twice and Jasmine Fox netted the other goal to take the students through to the Final where they will meet Long Lane Res, who won 7-1 against London Corinthians Res in the other semi final. Shiannetae Palmer scored a hat-trick for Long Lane and the other goals came from Madeleine Bone (2), Jessica Oldfield and Lehannah Shogbamimu.
The Final will take place on 27th April at the University of Kent (7.30pm).


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Merkel broke the silence and spoke on the situation in Ukraine
2 2022 June
Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been away for two months commented events around Ukraine even through his press secretary. Moreover, moving away from political activity, she kept a long personal silence after the start of the Russian special operation on Ukrainian territory, but on the 98th day of the SVO she was nevertheless forced to express her opinion on the situation in Ukraine.
According to Reuters, Merkel broke her silence amid criticism of her. The agency reported this, citing information received from its source. Merkel's words were spoken on June 1 during a farewell ceremony for the outgoing chairman of the German Trade Union Confederation (DGB) Reiner Hoffmann, who has led the union since 2014.
My solidarity with Ukraine
Merkel was briefly quoted by one of the participants in this event, writes Reuters.
According to the agency, Merkel excluded Ukraine from her political agenda. Now she expressed support for Kyiv, but said she would not give outside advice and fully approved of Berlin's efforts to "put an end to this barbaric war."
Fluent in Russian and raised in former communist East Germany, Merkel has drawn criticism from the US and other countries for supporting the construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, designed to bring Russian gas directly to Germany. She insisted on the need to continue communication with Russian President Vladimir Putin even after the annexation of Crimea to the Russian Federation and the outbreak of conflict in eastern Ukraine.
In late February, shortly after the start of the NWO, Merkel made a brief statement pointing out that there was no justification for the blatant violation of international law. But her silence since then has caused bewilderment. Actor Ulrich Matthes, a friend of Merkel's, defended her, explaining to Stern magazine this week that the former chancellor is involved, but she doesn't want to get involved personally.
I suspect she doesn't want to be something like a second chancellor.
Mattes added.
Some German statesmen, including former Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel, admitted that the policy of reconciliation with Russia may have been too optimistic, summed up the media.
Note that there is a certain consensus among the German elite that Merkel's policy towards Moscow and Beijing has completely failed, making Europe strategically weak and vulnerable to the Russian Federation and China, depriving the former chancellor of the chance to become federal president.
Photos used: Estonian Presidency / flickr.com
k7k8 (vic) 2 June 2022 15: 05
The former Komsomol member probably crossed her heel that it was not for her to fend off respectable taxpayer burghers in the current situation.
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Observer2014 2 June 2022 23: 28
Come on, exaggerate. She was the leader of her country for many years. And how she left ... It was beautiful to see. She was in her own specific conditions, it was for her and her country. Or did she personally have to remain something for you as a Bundeschancellor? :
And where in my post did you find claims personally to Mrs. Merkel? Or did I say somewhere that she was a worthless chancellor (even if it's not for me to decide)? Of course, this is not a politician of the level of Margaret Thatcher, but she did her job with honor, not like the current, God forgive me, Olaf the king of heaven. No need to look for a black cat in a dark room, especially since it is not there.
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Offline Shelest2000
Shelest2000 2 June 2022 19: 17
fully endorses Berlin's efforts to "put an end to this barbaric war."
Hitler kaput, Merkel!
Offline Dingo
Dingo (Victor) 2 June 2022 22: 54
Only in this way - not otherwise.
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Expert_Analyst_Forecaster 4 June 2022 08: 35
Grandma was retired. But the liberals blackmailed her by depriving her of her pension (money) if she did not publicly oppose the SVO. Liberals - they are ...!!!


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Candelaria Announces Closing of Final Tranche of Non-Brokered Private Placement
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Oct. 29, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Candelaria Mining Corp. (TSX-V: CAND, OTC PINK: CDELF) (the "Company") is pleased to announce that, further to its press release of September 22, 2021, it has closed its second and final tranche of its non-brokered private placement for a gross proceeds of $511,648 through the issuance of 1,136,997 units of the Company (the "Units") at a price of $0.45 per Unit (the "Final Offering"). Each Unit will consist of one common share of the Company and one-half of a common share purchase warrant (the "Warrants"), with each full Warrant entitling the holder thereof to acquire one common share of the Company at a price $0.65 for a period of 36 months following the closing of the Offering.
Gross proceeds raised from the Final Offering will be used for general corporate purposes.
Combining with first tranche, which closed on September 22, 2021, the total proceeds raised was $8,441,770, with a total issuance of 18,759,491 Units.
Armando Alexandri (COO) and Mike Struthers (CEO), subscribed for 622,222 Units ($280,000) and 91,111 Units ($41,000), respectively, under the second and final tranche of the Offering (the "Insider Subscriptions"). The Insider Subscriptions constitute "related party transactions" within the meaning of Multilateral Instrument 61-101 – Protection of Minority Securityholders in Special Transactions ("MI 61-101"). The Company has relied on the exemptions from the formal valuation and minority shareholder approval requirements of MI 61-101 contained in Sections 5.5(a) and 5.7(1)(a), respectively, of MI 61-101 in respect of the Insider Subscriptions.
The Final Offering is subject to certain conditions including, but not limited to, the receipt of all necessary regulatory and other approvals, including the approval of the TSX Venture Exchange.
The original regulatory deadline for closing of the Final Offering was October 7, 2021, in which the Company had obtained regulatory approval to extend it to October 29, 2021.
The securities offered pursuant to the Offering have not been, and will not be, registered under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "U.S. Securities Act") or any U.S. state securities laws, and may not be offered or sold in the United States or to, or for the account or benefit of, United States persons absent registration or any applicable exemption from the registration requirements of the U.S. Securities Act and applicable U.S. state securities laws. This news release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy securities in the United States, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD
Mike Struthers
Candelaria Mining Corp.
+1 604 349 5992 | [email protected]
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-looking Statements: This press release contains certain "forward-looking statements" and "forward-looking information" under applicable Canadian securities laws. Forward-looking statements and forward-looking information include, but are not limited to, statements with respect to the terms, the use of proceeds and the timing of closing of the Offering. Forward-looking statements are based on the opinions and estimates as at the date the statements are made, and are based on a number of assumptions and subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual events or results to differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements. Many of these assumptions are based on factors and events that are not within the control of the Company and there is no assurance they will prove to be correct. Factors that could cause actual results to vary materially from results anticipated by such forward-looking statements include changes in market conditions or metals prices, unanticipated developments on the Company's properties, and other risks described in the Company's public disclosure documents available under the Company's profile at www.sedar.com.
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
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CORRECTION — Robex Resources Inc.: Excellent December Performance Continuing Into January
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CITY OF QUEBEC, Jan. 21, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Please note that there was an error in a press release issued by Robex Resources Inc. (TSXV: RBX) under…
CITY OF QUEBEC, Jan. 21, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Please note that there was an error in a press release issued by Robex Resources Inc. (TSXV: RBX) under the same headline on January 18, 2022, at 09:30 am EST. The corrected release follows:
Robex Resources Inc. ("Robex", the "Group" or the "Company") (TSXV: RBX)
Record December production
ROBEX Resources Inc. is pleased to announce a record production in December 2021 with a monthly tonnage of 192,024 tonnes at a grade of 0.94 g/t, producing 166 kg (5,337 oz of doré).
This production rate continues with 95,877 tonnes of ore processed during the first 15 days of January.
The new mining plan established this year enabled us to optimize the Nampala resources. The results confirm this strategy's effectiveness:
Period Tonnage
(tonnes) Grade
(g/t) Stripping
(S/M) Production
(Oz)
Q1 2021 472,410 0.75 5.70 10,642
Annual 1,948,284 0.81 4.11 46,554
We have seen a continuous improvement throughout 2021:
Tonnage was up strongly, which is explained by the commissioning of multiple investments: first the cone crusher, then in December the new cyclone pumps that enabled us to achieve the December production record. Investment in a new crusher feeder planned for 2022 should enable us to further improve the plant's efficiency.
Steady improvement in grade and stripping ratio with the new mining plan.
Improvement in production costs
The combined effect of tonnage increase, grade improvement and lower stripping ratio have significantly improved production costs.
External growth
In addition to these production improvements, Robex continues to actively pursue its ambitions for external growth. Accordingly, and as previously announced, management is currently examining various projects to implement the Company's business plan and achieve its new objectives.
Situation in Mali
Robex is closely monitoring developments in Mali and the possible consequences of international decisions on the mining sector.
For the moment, operations continue as usual with no particular impact.
For more information, the Robex management report and summary interim consolidated financial statements (unaudited) are available on the Company's website in the Investors section. These reports and other documents produced by the Company are also available at: sedar.com.
A word from the chairman, Mr. Georges Cohen:
"Once again, I congratulate the team for the great work and the improvement in Nampala's results.
This press release allows me also to thank all our employees in Quebec and Mali for their accomplishments and wish them and our shareholders a great 2022."
About ROBEX:
Robex Resources Inc. is a TSX-V listed Canadian mining company with exploration properties in Mali and an operating mine. The group has a strong business model, which demonstrated great results with the Nampala mine. With this experience, Robex is now striving to grow in West Africa by acquiring and/or developing new mines.
Benjamin Cohen, CEO
Aurélien Bonneviot, investors relations and corporate development
Head office: +1-581-741-7421
This press release contains statements that may be considered "forecast information" or "forecast statements" in terms of security rights. These forecasts are subject to uncertainties and risks, some of which are beyond the control of Robex. Achievements and final results may differ significantly from implicit or explicit forecasts. These differences can be attributed to many factors, including market volatility, the impact of the exchange rate and interest rate fluctuations, mispricing, the environment (tighter regulations), unforeseen geological situations, unfavourable operating conditions, political risks inherent in mining in developing countries, changes in government politics or regulations (laws and policies), an inability to obtain necessary permits and approvals from government agencies, or any other risk associated with mining and development. There can be no assurance that the circumstances set out in these forecasts will occur, or even benefit Robex. The forecasts are based on the estimates and opinions of the Robex management team at the time of publication. Robex makes no commitment to make any updates or changes to these publicly available forecasts based on new information or events, or for any other reason, except as required by applicable security laws. The TSX Venture Exchange or the Regulation Services Provider (as defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) assumes no responsibility for the authenticity or accuracy of this press release.
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Rockhaven Resources: Advancing Toward Production, CEO Clip Video
Vancouver, British Columbia–(Newsfile Corp. – January 21, 2022) – Rockhaven Resources Ltd. (TSXV: RK) – Matt Turner, President & CEO, gives his insight…
Vancouver, British Columbia–(Newsfile Corp. – January 21, 2022) – Rockhaven Resources Ltd. (TSXV: RK) – Matt Turner, President & CEO, gives his insight on the company's Klaza Project.
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Rockhaven Resources Ltd. will be featured on CEO Clips broadcast on BNN Bloomberg on Jan 22nd & Jan 23rd, 2022.
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Kibali Delivers Another Stellar Performance and Expects to Grow Its Mineral Reserves Net of Depletion
All amounts expressed in US dollars KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo, Jan. 21, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Barrick Gold Corporation (NYSE:GOLD)…
All amounts expressed in US dollars
KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo, Jan. 21, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Barrick Gold Corporation (NYSE:GOLD) (TSX:ABX) – The Kibali gold mine produced a total of 812,152 ounces1, well within guidance for 2021, and expects to increase its mineral reserves net of depletion for the third successive year, maintaining its plus 10-year life as one of Barrick Gold Corporation's Tier One2 assets.
At a media briefing here, Barrick president and chief executive Mark Bristow noted that this performance, which grew steadily stronger during the year, was achieved with no lost time injuries during the last quarter. Like all Barrick's mines worldwide, Kibali retained its ISO 45001 safety and ISO 14001 environmental accreditations.
At the same time, Kibali continued to lead the group's clean energy drive with power sourced from its three continuously upgraded hydropower stations supported by new back-up battery technology.
"Kibali's performance was supported by reinforced Covid-19 protocols to deal with the fourth wave of the virus. The mine worked closely with the DRC's health authorities and the provincial government to source vaccines and to date has partially vaccinated 60% of its workforce, with 43% of the workforce fully vaccinated," Bristow said.
"It also strengthened its local business partnerships to build a sustainable economy in the region. During Q4 it spent $40.6 million with local contractors and suppliers, bringing the total since the start of Kibali to $2.1 billion. To date, Kibali has invested some $3.7 billion in the DRC in the form of taxes, permits, infrastructure, salaries and payments to local partners."
During the fourth quarter Kibali paid a dividend of $170 million to shareholders of Barrick, AngloGold Ashanti and government parastatal, SOKIMO, bringing the total distribution for the year to $200 million. Bristow said Barrick and the Congolese authorities were working together on a program to release cash for the repayment of offshore loans.
During the quarter Kibali launched the Garamba Alliance, a biodiversity partnership with the US Agency for International Development (USAID) designed to preserve this World Heritage park through anti-poaching actions and other conservation initiatives. This partnership is also designed to secure a sustainable economic future for the local community surrounding the park.
Looking ahead, Bristow said underground drilling at the KCD orebody was defining a new high-grade lode above the base of the shaft infrastructure. This was an exciting discovery which could add an entirely new orebody to the existing KCD series of orebodies.
Mark Bristow
COO, Africa and Middle East
Willem Jacobs
DRC country manager
Cyrille Mutombo
Kathy du Plessis
Website: www.barrick.com
Endnote 1
On a 100% basis.
A Tier One Gold Asset is an asset with a reserve potential to deliver a minimum 10-year life, annual production of at least 500,000 ounces of gold and total cash costs per ounce over the mine life that are in the lower half of the industry cost curve.
Cautionary Statement on Forward-Looking Information
Certain information contained or incorporated by reference in this press release, including any information as to our strategy, projects, plans, or future financial or operating performance, constitutes "forward-looking statements". All statements, other than statements of historical fact, are forward-looking statements. The words "expect", "will", "maintain", "potential", "could", "guidance", "opportunities", "design" and similar expressions identify forward-looking statements. In particular, this press release contains forward-looking statements including, without limitation, with respect to: Kibali's production guidance and performance; opportunities to grow reserves net of depletion and extend Kibali's mine life; securing Kibali's status as Tier One mine; the anticipated environmental and operational benefits from Kibali's investment in its hydropower stations and battery technology; Kibali's health, safety and environmental protection programs, including its Covid-19 prevention protocols and initiatives to secure Covid-19 vaccines as well as the Garamba Alliance; the results of underground drilling at the KCD orebody and the definition of a new high-grade lode; Barrick's engagement with Congolese authorities on a program to release cash in the DRC for the repayment of offshore loans; and Barrick's commitment to the DRC and potential further growth opportunities.
Forward-looking statements are necessarily based upon a number of estimates and assumptions including material estimates and assumptions related to the factors set forth below that, while considered reasonable by the Company as at the date of this press release in light of management's experience and perception of current conditions and expected developments, are inherently subject to significant business, economic, and competitive uncertainties and contingencies. Known and unknown factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements, and undue reliance should not be placed on such statements and information. Such factors include, but are not limited to: fluctuations in the spot and forward price of gold, copper, or certain other commodities (such as silver, diesel fuel, natural gas, and electricity); the speculative nature of mineral exploration and development; changes in mineral production performance, exploitation, and exploration successes; the possibility that future exploration results will not be consistent with the Company's expectations; risks that exploration data may be incomplete and considerable additional work may be required to complete further evaluation, including but not limited to drilling, engineering and socioeconomic studies and investment; risk of loss due to acts of war, terrorism, sabotage and civil disturbances; risks associated with projects in the early stages of evaluation, and for which additional engineering and other analysis is required; failure to comply with environmental and health and safety laws and regulations; timing of receipt of, or failure to comply with, necessary permits and approvals; uncertainty whether some or all of Barrick's targeted investments and projects will meet the Company's capital allocation objectives and internal hurdle rate; changes in national and local government legislation, taxation, controls or regulations and/ or changes in the administration of laws, policies and practices, expropriation or nationalization of property and political or economic developments in the DRC and other jurisdictions in which the Company or its affiliates do or may carry on business in the future; damage to the Company's reputation due to the actual or perceived occurrence of any number of events, including negative publicity with respect to the Company's handling of environmental matters or dealings with community groups, whether true or not; risks associated with new diseases, epidemics and pandemics, including the effects and potential effects of the global Covid-19 pandemic; litigation and legal and administrative proceedings; employee relations including loss of key employees; increased costs and physical risks, including extreme weather events and resource shortages, related to climate change; and availability and increased costs associated with mining inputs and labor. Barrick also cautions that its guidance may be impacted by the unprecedented business and social disruption caused by the spread of Covid-19. In addition, there are risks and hazards associated with the business of mineral exploration, development and mining, including environmental hazards, industrial accidents, unusual or unexpected formations, pressures, cave-ins, flooding and gold bullion, copper cathode or gold or copper concentrate losses (and the risk of inadequate insurance, or inability to obtain insurance, to cover these risks).
Many of these uncertainties and contingencies can affect our actual results and could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in any forward-looking statements made by, or on behalf of, us. Readers are cautioned that forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance. All of the forward-looking statements made in this press release are qualified by these cautionary statements. Specific reference is made to the most recent Form 40-F/Annual Information Form on file with the SEC and Canadian provincial securities regulatory authorities for a more detailed discussion of some of the factors underlying forward-looking statements and the risks that may affect Barrick's ability to achieve the expectations set forth in the forward-looking statements contained in this press release.
Barrick disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by applicable law.
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After parent's arrest, school system admits child was removed from wheelchair with recording device
By: Chris Nakamoto
LIVINGSTON - The Livingston Parish School System admits it removed the wheelchair of a special needs child from the room where she was learning, a stunning admission that could impact a pending criminal case against the child's mother.
This week, Amanda Carter was arrested for 20 counts of illegal use of a wire, essentially a wiretapping charge. She is accused of placing recording devices on her daughter Gracie's wheelchair after the family says she began coming home with bruises.
Some of those recordings captured conversations between other adults at Live Oak High School. Live Oak administrators were aware that the wheelchair had recording devices, and in one part of the recordings adults are heard talking about who told them to move it.
"Ms. Jones said (inaudible). For what? Said it needed to be locked up."
Gracie's family believes Ms. Jones is the school's principal Beth Jones.
When WBRZ inquired whether the principal instructed someone to remove a special needs' wheelchair from a child, Delia Taylor, a school spokesperson gave the following statement.
"The student participates in ambulatory activities during the day as part of her IEP (individual education plan), including classroom interaction, physical education and physical therapy exercises. On these occasions, the wheelchair is removed from the classroom to allow for additional space. It is placed in a safe, unoccupied secure space. At times when the student must travel distances, for example, to and from the bus, the student is returned to the wheelchair for those activities."
An hour after Livingston schools released that statement, a spokesperson sent another written response saying it broke the law by sharing that information and that it should have never been sent.
"Livingston Parish Public Schools is prohibited by legal statute from identifying any student with disabilities, in accordance with HIPA (sic) regulations, nor can the district comment on the individual education plan (IEP) for students with disabilities, including information about devices that may or may not be part of that student's IEP. Thus, Livingston Parish Public Schools cannot respond to your request for a public statement."
The original admission by the school that it was removing the wheelchair raises questions about whether the wiretapping charges will hold up since employees separated the device from the child and moved it.
"I think if anyone is wrong here it's the school, and they should be looked into, not the mother," LSU Law Professor Ken Levy said.
WBRZ reached out to the school system to ask if it would be dropping the charges against Carter with the new information. They never got back to us.
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Q: Java URLEncoder changing special character? I want to use java's URLEncoder class to encode my url strings.  However, by default it converts spaces to '+' (plus sign).  I'd like it to use '-' instead (similar to how this site encodes its urls).
I'm wondering what the best way to do this is?  Should I just use its built in functionality and then do a string replace (from '+' to '-')?  Thanks

A: The URLEncoder encodes the URL's according a specific contract. You can and should not change it. Indeed just do a string replace afterwards, or maybe better, beforehand. The hyphen - is namely already a valid character in URL.
String encodedURL = URLEncoder.encode(url.replace(" ", "-"), "UTF-8");

A: Agreed with @BalusC.
I would also like to point out that what you are trying to do is not really "encoding" in the normal sense of the phrase "URL encoding".  Encoding implies that that there is a reverse decoding step that will give you the original URL back.  Unless you have some business rule that precludes "-" characters (e.g. hyphens if you are creating URL names from "text"), your transformation will not be reversible.
What you appear to be doing is transforming URL strings into other URL strings according to some rule that probably not reversible.  It is not at all surprising that the URLEncoder class (which implements a particular standardised reversible encoding) is not implementing your (application specific) transformation.
As @BalusC points out, the correct approach is to transform the URL strings (according to your application's needs) before you encode them.  Indeed, it may be better (e.g. safer) to implement the transformation on the URL string's components ... before you assemble the complete URL.
(And I am taking for granted that the URLs are being used in a context that actually require the encoding implemented by URLEncoder.)

A: This site doesn't 'encode its URLs' with hyphens, it defines them that way in the first place, apparently so that no encoding is necessary. That's up to how they generate their URLs. You can do the same, but that's not URLEncoding, that's just generating URLs. Using URLEncoder for this task, which it is not designed for, and complaining that it does exactly what it is supposed to do and not what you want is pretty pointless. As BalusC said, URLEncoder is part of a contract between your browser and the Web servers of the world. You can't change that.

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Greater access for all
We make it a priority to offer an experience that can be fully enjoyed by all patrons. Whether you are attending a performance, taking a tour or participating in our education programs, discover how our award-winning access services can help make your visit a memorable one.
Meet our accessibility manager
Hunter Gullickson works tirelessly to ensure the Guthrie is welcoming to people of all abilities. As a recipient of the Sally Award for Arts Access, his expertise and influence extends to the community by offering consultations and equipment rentals to other arts organizations and the Minnesota Access Alliance.
In the words of a Sally Award nominator, "He's setting the standard as the premier access manager for theater in the area. If other theaters are looking for advice, I refer them to Hunter."
If you have specific questions or need an accommodation not listed below, please contact us at 612.225.6390 or accessibility@guthrietheater.org.
To purchase tickets for access performances, use the access filter on the performance calendar or call the Box Office at 612.377.2224. To purchase an access season ticket package (ASL interpretation, audio description and open captioning), call the Season Ticket Office at 612.225.6238.
Programs by request
We offer ASL interpretation, audio description and open captioning upon request for discussions, concerts, special events or any play that runs less than two weeks. Requests must be received at least two weeks in advance. Services are subject to availability and provided at the discretion of the Guthrie.
Support for arts organizations
We're proud to support the accessibility initiatives of our fellow arts organizations. We welcome requests for equipment rental, Braille programs, access training and more.
Patrons who have mobility challenges
Wheelchair and accessible seating
Our seating charts for the Wurtele Thrust Stage and McGuire Proscenium Stage indicate seat locations reserved for patrons using wheelchairs as well as seats with removable armrests. We make every attempt to seat up to three companions in adjacent or nearby seats. Wheelchair and accessible seat locations in the Dowling Studio are determined by the seating configuration for each production.
Courtesy wheelchairs
A limited number of wheelchairs are available to be borrowed on a first-come, first-served basis from the concierge desk in the Level One lobby.
Patrons who are deaf or hard of hearing
FM assistive listening systems that amplify and clarify sound by cutting down ambient noise are installed in each theater and may be used at any seat.
Headphones, earbuds and induction neck loops (for patrons who use hearing aids and cochlear implants with a T-switch) may be borrowed from the Patron Services desk on Level Four. Ask your audiologist whether your hearing aid or cochlear implant has a T-switch and how to use it with an assistive device.
ASL interpretation
American Sign Language interpretation by certified interpreters is offered for select performances.
ASL-interpreted backstage tours may be arranged with two weeks' notice. Please make any special needs known at the time of booking.
Open captioning
Whether you have hearing loss too severe to benefit from assistive listening devices or you don't want to miss a single word, we offer open captioning for select performances. Captions appear on a display screen in real time, synchronized to the action by an experienced captioner.
Patrons who are blind or have low vision
Our expert audio describers share detailed descriptions of actions, costumes, scenery and other aspects of a production. FM receivers for audio description are installed in each theater and may be used at any seat.
Braille and large-print materials
Play programs and a variety of brochures are available in Braille and large print at the Patron Services desk on Level Four.
High-magnification glasses
High-magnification (2.8x) sport glasses for vision enhancement are available free of charge on a first-come, first-served basis at the Patron Services desk on Level Four.
Guide dogs and other service animals are permitted to assist Guthrie visitors. The nearest green space in the neighborhood is Gold Medal Park next to the Guthrie.
Sensory tours
Complimentary sensory tours take place before audio-described Saturday matinees at 10:30 a.m. and allow patrons to explore the stage, costumes and props. Reservations are not required.
All-gender restrooms
During performances, four universal, ADA-accessible restrooms that lock and provide privacy are available to patrons of any gender identity and expression on Levels Three and Four.
Level Three
One all-gender restroom is accessible from the McGuire Proscenium Stage. Where Aisle 2 ends at the stage, pass through the door on the right.
One all-gender restroom is located in the main lobby next to the men's restroom, and two all-gender restrooms are located at the end of the Von Blon Lobby, which is past the main entrance to the Wurtele Thrust Stage.
Public restrooms are located on Levels Four, Five and Eight.
Although open to all patrons, a relaxed performance is intentionally modified to accommodate patrons with sensory and vestibular sensitivities, anxiety, dementia, autism spectrum disorders, learning differences or challenges attending the theater.
Nursing mothers and changing stations
Nursing mothers are welcome to breastfeed wherever they feel comfortable in our public lobbies. If you prefer a private location for nursing or pumping, please connect with a Guthrie staff member or visit the Patron Services desk on Level Four.
Changing stations are available in the public restrooms on Levels Four, Five and Eight.
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The California Assembly Budget Subcommittee on Education Finance approved the "Degrees Not Debt" budget plan Tuesday designed to make higher education in California more accessible and affordable.
Assembly Democrats, students, parents and the assembly's budget and higher education committees announced the budget package Monday to assist the nearly 2.8 million students in California's public higher education systems, including the University of California, California State University and California Community College systems, according to a press release from Assemblymember Kevin McCarthy.
The budget package would be the first of its kind to help address costs not related to tuition for students attending a state higher education institution, according to the press release. It would also make community colleges free for one year for any full-time in-state student and oppose Gov. Jerry Brown's plan to phase out the Middle Class Scholarship.
The package, however, would not establish tuition-free education. Families making more than $60,000 would be expected to contribute to costs, and students would be required to hold part-time jobs.
H.D. Palmer, spokesperson for the California Department of Finance, said the department has yet to do a formal fiscal analysis.
"This is certainly a noble goal, but one that comes with a lot of substantial questions and a price tag," Palmer said.
In December 2016, the Public Policy Institute of California conducted a poll that found that the majority of California residents believe affordability is a major problem within the state's public colleges.
According to UC spokesperson Ricardo Vazquez, the UC Office of the President is looking forward to studying the budget package and its proposals.
"As an institution committed to expanding educational access for low-income and first-generation students, we are interested in any proposal that aims to provide more financial support to students," Vazquez said in an email.
Campus senior Gabriel Davtyan, however, said he is concerned about potential abuse of this plan. Davtyan is worried that tuition or rental rates could rise as students receive increased subsidies and cash flow.
Cal Berkeley Democrats member Soli Alpert said he thinks the new package would be a step in the right direction because of the debt associated with the cost of living here in California.
Omar Rivera, a campus junior transfer, said in an email that he is happy about the approval of the plan because it would inspire important discourse regarding accessibility to quality education.
California Student Aid Commission spokesperson Patti Colston said the commission has not yet voted to take a position on the budget plan but called the proposal the "most comprehensive" and "wide-reaching" of its kind in the nation. Colston commended the efforts of the legislators.
"A number of academic studies (including my own) have shown that student debt delays students' proper entering into adulthood," said Zachary Bleemer, a research associate at the UC Berkeley Center for Studies in Higher Education, in an email.